I Know By Experience That The Poets

The Historian Must Have Some Conception Of How Men Who Are Not Historians Behave. Otherwise He Will Move In A World Of The Dead. He Can Only Gain That Conception Through Personal Experience, And He Can Only Use His Personal Experiences When He Is A Genius.

For A Wonderful Physical Tie Binds The Parents To The Children; And - By Some Sad, Strange Irony - It Does Not Bind Us Children To Our Parents. For If It Did, If We Could Answer Their Love Not With Gratitude But With Equal Love, Life Would Lose Much Of Its Pathos And Much Of Its Squalor, And We Might Be Wonderfully Happy.

I Have Almost Completed A Long Novel, But It Is Unpublishable Until My Death And England's.

It Is The Vice Of A Vulgar Mind To Be Thrilled By Bigness.

The English Countryside, Its Growth And Its Destruction, Is A Genuine And Tragic Theme.