Take breath and read it with the ears, as I always wish to be read, and my verse becomes all right. - Gerard Manley Hopkins

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened, to any degree heightened and unlike itself, but not...an obsolete one.

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. So it must be on every original artist to some degree, on me to a marked degree.
(from notes on 'Heraclitean Fire')

Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise
Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour
Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier
Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies?