Remarks by Ralph Hodgson | V2Melody Quotations

The childhood meeting that began a lifelong passion for fighting dogs · Recollection of first seeing a bull mastiff

Dogs ranked with verse as a serious subject · Remark to Siegfried Sassoon about Arthur Quiller-Couch

A new country justified by its birds rather than its convenience · Conversation on settling in Ohio, reported in Time magazine, 1958

Fury at human cruelty to animals and to the living world · Conversation, reported in Time magazine, 1958

Poetry treated as reception rather than manufacture · Conversation on Walter de la Mare, reported in Time magazine, 1958

Wonder preferred to a system that would tidy the living world · Conversation, reported in Time magazine, 1958

His reason for neglecting the farm and attending to wonder instead · Conversation, reported in Time magazine, 1958

Moral commonplaces remembered as innovations that once startled · Flying Scrolls, collected in The Skylark and Other Poems

Cosmetic polish will not disguise the condition of the soul · Flying Scrolls, collected in The Skylark and Other Poems

A dry glance at slyness dressed as charm · Flying Scrolls, collected in The Skylark and Other Poems

Ordinary life recovering its strangeness once catastrophe grows stale · Flying Scrolls, collected in The Skylark and Other Poems

Belief pictured as a small bird still building in impossible weather · Flying Scrolls, collected in The Skylark and Other Poems

The night mind credited with an inventiveness waking life rarely matches · Flying Scrolls, collected in The Skylark and Other Poems

A warning against taking omens and official signs at face value · Flying Scrolls, collected in The Skylark and Other Poems

Faith treated as the instrument that makes certain realities visible · Flying Scrolls, collected in The Skylark and Other Poems