... there are shadows because there are hills.

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can't touch - like England 's grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.