“It is really a matter for wonder how rational intercourse through the medium of language can be so complete and easy as it is, when the ideas conveyed by the words are so different in each person.”

Observing the remarkable success of language despite differences in individual meaning · Address, The Necessity of Poetry, 1917

• Poetry
• Truth

“What had led me to poetry was the inexhaustible satisfaction of form, the magic of speech, lying as it seemed to me in the masterly control of the material.”

Explaining his early attraction to poetry as a craft of form and language · Memoir of Digby Mackworth Dolben

• Art
• Poetry

“There is surely not one of our meanest churches that has not been sanctified by loving service.”

Finding spiritual dignity in humble places through human devotion · Memoir prefixed to Richard Watson Dixon's Poems, 1909

• Beauty
• Faith