With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'

That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.

A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.

But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.