“I detect in it something that he does not specify: a reason for the continuance of poetry as a live factor among his people.”

Seeking the cultural conditions that allow poetry to remain a living art · Essay, Poetry and Culture, introduction to The Jade Mountain (1929)

• Poetry
• Time

“The cynics are wrong who see in our future no place for an art which belongs, they say, to the childhood of the race.”

Defending poetry against predictions that modernity would make it obsolete · Essay, Poetry and Culture, introduction to The Jade Mountain (1929)

• Hope
• Poetry
• Time

“I feel with conviction that in the matter of poetry I have begun to receive a new, finer, and deeper education than ever came to me from the Hebrew or the Greek.”

Describing the profound influence Chinese poetry had on his understanding of the art · Essay, Poetry and Culture, introduction to The Jade Mountain (1929)

• Art
• Poetry