“Memory naturally rejects what has not interested and impressed it.”

Observing that memory preserves what has genuinely engaged the mind. · Essay, The Flight of the Dragon (1911)

• Memory
• Truth

“There is indeed a deep fund of poetry in this attachment of man to the earth; in the immemorial associations which we have with the labours of the fields.”

Finding poetic depth in humanity's ancient relationship with the land. · Essay, The Flight of the Dragon (1911)

• Memory
• Nature
• Poetry

“Perhaps no people has ever been stirred by a great idea till that idea was animated and made memorable by finding its right expression in rhythmical phrase.”

Linking the lasting power of ideas to memorable patterns of language. · Essay, The Flight of the Dragon (1911)

• Art
• Memory
• Poetry