“Style is the artist's breath of life, which, with divine power, he blows into his clay and makes it a living soul in his own image.”

Form as animation rather than ornament · Essay, The Personal Note

• Art
• Creation
• Style

“I have been forced to conclude that a good part of bird-song is the mechanical response to what may be called hereditary memory.”

Melody treated as inheritance as much as invention · Essay, The Motif of Bird-Song, in Sylvan Secrets

• Animals
• Instinct
• Memory

“The poetry of solitude stalks embodied as a sylvan toxophilite who goes alone into a primeval grove.”

The solitary archer as a walking figure of lyric isolation · Essay, An Archer on the Kankakee

• Nature
• Poetry
• Solitude