“Neither are we, I have sometimes thought, worth their stark tragedies, or these trench paradoxes which furnish incidents for the poetic cinema.”

Questioning the transformation of soldiers' suffering into literary spectacle · Review, The Poet of the War

• Art
• Death
• War

“There are two ways of expressing what we may call an Indian inspiration. One is to use the Indian's own method—to get within.”

Distinguishing inward imaginative identification from external description · Review, Tall Timber and a Loon

• Art
• Poetry

“It is extremely difficult for the trained musician to catch the intervals of Indian music, both in pitch and time.”

Recognising the difficulty of translating one musical tradition into another · Review, Tall Timber and a Loon

• Art
• Music