Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver. - Gerard Manley Hopkins

Ask of her, the mighty mother:
Her reply puts this other
Question: What is Spring?—
Growth in everything.

Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.

I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.