Before going any further may we take it that the object of art is to obtain a partial revelation of that which is beyond human senses and human faculties - of that, in fact, which is spiritual? And that the means which we employ to induce this revelation are those very senses and faculties themselves?

Art for art's sake has never flourished in England. We are often called inartistic because our art is unconscious. Our drama and poetry, like our laws and our …

The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

Then dawns the Invisible; the Unseen its truth reveals; My outward sense is gone, my inward essence feels - Its wings are almost free, its home, its harbour fo…

There is another world and it is in this one.

The imagination...that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the sense…