Herbert Read Quotes
Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs.
These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.
The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry is never speech but always a song.
Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.
