It Is Impossible For A Christian To

When One's Function Is To Teach The Loftiest Wisdom, It Is Difficult To Resist The Temptation To Believe That Until You Have Spoken, Nothing Has Been Said.

The Only Artist Who Does Not Deserve Respect Is The One Who Works To Please The Public, For Commercial Success Or For Official Success.

Every Work Of Art Reaches Man In His Inner Powers. It Reaches Him More Profoundly And Insidiously Than Any Rational Proposition, Either Cogent Demonstration Or Sophistry. For It Strikes Him With Two Terrible Weapons, Intuition And Beauty, And At The Single Root In Him Of All His Energies... Art And Poetry Awaken The Dreams Of Man, And His Longings, And Reveal To Him Some Of The Abysses He Has In Himself.

God's Love Causes The Beauty Of What He Loves, Our Love Is Caused By The Beauty Of What We Love.

That Is Why I Think, In Defiance Of Plato, That There Is At Once Error And Vulgarity In Saying That Poetry Is A Lie, Except In The Sense That Cocteau Wrote One Day: I Am A Lie Who Always Tells The Truth. The Only Poetry Which Lies Purely And Simply Is Academic, Pseudo-classical, Conceptually Repetitive Poetry, And It Is Not Poetry.