"The ploughman ploughs, the fisherman dreams of fish; Aloft, the sailor, through a world of ropes Guides tangled medit…"

"Being pre-eminently a moralist, he needed a medium that enabled him to illustrate a moral insight as briefly and vivi…"

"It is impossible for a poet to characterize his own work. From other people I gather that I am a gloomy poet, if not …"

"I was invited to Romania at least once, but was warned that I should not be free to travel where I pleased in the cou…"

"Translation came naturally to me because as a child I was translated from Germany to Britain."

"He was out of tune with what a younger generation of poets were writing, and railed against the shallowness and comme…"

"Obituary in The Guardian"

""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"

"Auribus immensis quondam donatus asellus institit ut caudam posset habere parem. cauda suo capiti quia se conferre ne…"

"You are, and haue beene feared ouer all, England's an Ile, of stoute and hardie men: Be stronge in faith, your foes d…"