1. “The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.”
2.”The poet craves emotion and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.”
3. “The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.”
4. “Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.”
5. “Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”
6. “Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.”
7. “To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.”
8. “The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.”
9. “A writer is justly called ‘universal’ when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.”
10. “Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shall be life, the acknowledged voice of life?.”
11. “I am quite sure that no friendship yield its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.”
12. “Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify – through things.”
13. “Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it.”
14. “Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.”
15. “I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.”
