“Poetry, the most concentrated form of literature, gives so much in small space, and hence survives more vitally than other forms.”

On the enduring power of poetry · Interview, 1932

• Concentration
• Endurance
• Poetry

“The analytical specialist, in every department of thought, has been leading the world along a diminishing road, which eventually runs out into nothingness.”

Critique of hyper-specialisation in education · Speech, Conference of Universities, 1933

• Education
• Knowledge
• Society

“The old definition of poetry as emotion remembered in tranquillity is true, and just now it is especially true.”

Affirming Wordsworth's definition amid war · Interview, 1915

• Emotion
• Poetry
• Tranquillity