The poet's instinct kept him in harmony with those essential and vital principles of language of which the formal rules are simply didactic statements.
Art, it need hardly be said, is never artifice; intelligence and calculation enter into the work of the artist, but in the last analysis it is the free and noble expression of his own personality.
It expresses what is deepest and most significant in him, and expresses it in a final rather than a provisional form.

The secret of the reality and power of art lies in the fact that it is the culmination and summing up of a process of observation, experience, and feeling; it is the deposit of whatever is richest and most enduring in the life of a man or a race.

It is a finality both of experience and of thought; it contains the ultimate and the widest conception of man's nature and life, or of the meaning and reality of Nature, which an age or a race reaches.

It is the supreme flowering of the genius of a race or an age.

It has, therefore, the highest educational value.