“The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into his meaning.”

Describing the demands modern experience places upon poetic language · Essay, The Metaphysical Poets

• Art
• Poetry

“Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow: but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.”

Distinguishing passing crises from enduring human problems · Treatise, The Idea of a Christian Society

• Time
• Truth

“Poetry begins, I dare say, with a savage beating a drum in the jungle, and it retains that essential of percussion and rhythm.”

Locating the origins of poetry in rhythm and bodily sound · Lecture series, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism

• Music
• Poetry