"The child is father to the man."

"I say more, the just man justices; Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces; Acts in God's eye what in God's eye…"

"I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was …"

"Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson."

"I think that the trivialness of life is, and personally to each one, ought to be seen to be, done away with by the In…"

"I am surprised you should say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these would be bett…"

"It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach P…"

"All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose."

"Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like …"

"What I do is me: for that I came."