“That passionate patience which is the core of life.”

Condensing Bynner's ideal of attentive, enduring engagement with existence · Essay, Poetry and Culture, introduction to The Jade Mountain (1929)

• Hope
• Time
• Truth

“Poetry more than any other of the arts may be carried about by a man either in his own remembering heart or else in compact and easily available printed form.”

Emphasising poetry's unusual portability through memory and the written word · Essay, Poetry and Culture, introduction to The Jade Mountain (1929)

• Art
• Memory
• Poetry

“The great Chinese poets accept the world exactly as they find it in all its terms, and with profound simplicity find therein sufficient solace.”

Finding consolation in poetry that accepts reality without embellishment · Essay, Poetry and Culture, introduction to The Jade Mountain (1929)

• Hope
• Poetry
• Truth