"I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As..." — Gerard Manley Hopkins

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.

Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.