Broad Tolerance In The Matter

A Proof Of Really Great Art Is That It Is Generally True - It Seldom Falls Into The Misapprehensions To Which Minor Art Is Liable.

Literary Success Of Any Enduring Kind Is Made By Refusing To Do What Publishers Want, By Refusing To Write What The Public Wants, By Refusing To Accept Any Popular Standard, By Refusing To Write Anything To Order.

In Order To Comprehend The Beauty Of A Japanese Garden, It Is Necessary To Understand - Or At Least To Learn To Understand - The Beauty Of Stone.

French Novels Generally Treat Of The Relations Of Women To The World And To Lovers, After Marriage; Consequently There Is A Great Deal In French Novels About Adultery, About Improper Relations Between The Sexes, About Many Things Which The English Public Would Not Allow.

Perhaps There Is An Idea Among Japanese Students That One General Difference Between Japanese And Western Poetry Is That The Former Cultivates Short Forms And The Latter Longer Ones, Gut This Is Only In Part True.