But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew in my heart Walt Whitmanโs mind to be more like my own than any other manโs living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.
Gerard Manley HopkinsLet Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.
Gerard Manley Hopkins