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- The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art. — George Santayana
- I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. — Henry David Thoreau
- A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. — W. H. Auden
- We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love. — Anna Jameson
- A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense. — Anna Jameson
- What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. — Anna Jameson