Herbert Read Past Quotations

Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.

In order to create it is necessary to destroy; and the agent of destruction in society is the poet. I believe that the poet is necessarily an anarchist, and that he must oppose all organized conceptions of the State, not only those which we inherit from the past, but equally those which are imposed on people in the name of the future.

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.