You've got to be stupid to heckle me - I am very equipped to win.
The practice of "reviewing". . . in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
It's time to start living the life you've imagined.
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.
Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice.
History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a story without an argument fades into antiquarianism; an argument without a story risks pedantry. Writing history requires empathy, inquiry, and debate. It requires forswearing condescension, cant, and nostalgia. The past isn’t quaint. Much of it, in fact, is bleak.
Work only a half a day. It makes no difference which half-the first 12 hours or the last 12 hours.