“The secret of poetry is cruelty.”
“Good poetry makes the universe reveal a secret.”
“Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”
“Two girls discover the secret of lifein a sudden line of poetry.”
“All in all it is difficult not to feel that pacifism, as it appears among a section of the intelligentsia, is secretly inspired by an admiration for power and successful cruelty.”
“Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!”