“It will so continue to be, in spite of the apparent shocks given it by the noises of modern commerce and science and jazz.”

Affirming poetry's resilience amid the pressures and distractions of modern life · Essay, Poetry and Culture, introduction to The Jade Mountain (1929)

• Hope
• Poetry
• Time

“The sense of poetry as a natural and solacing part of life has lasted among the Chinese people.”

Presenting poetry as consolation woven naturally into ordinary existence · Essay, Poetry and Culture, introduction to The Jade Mountain (1929)

• Hope
• Poetry

“Wordsworth, of our poets, comes closest to the Chinese; but their poetry cleaves even nearer to nature than his.”

Comparing Chinese poetic directness with Wordsworth's celebrated intimacy with nature · Essay, Poetry and Culture, introduction to The Jade Mountain (1929)

• Nature
• Poetry