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What I do is me, for that I came.

Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.

What you look at hard seems to look at you.

Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.

The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.

Our Lord Jesus Christ , my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.

I have desired to go
Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
And a few lilies blow.

Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!

That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows
Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?

Why wouldst thou rude on me they wring-world right foot rock?

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.

It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.

And I have asked to be
Where no storms come,
Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,
And out of the swing of the sea.

For myself I make no secret, I look forward with eager desire to seeing the matchless beauty of Christ's body in the heavenly light.

I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it.

Where lies your landmark, seamark, or soul's star?

After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.

Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;

Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.

The achieve of; the mastery of the thing!

Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.

I think that the trivialness of life is, and personally to each one, ought to be seen to be, done away with by the Incarnation.

And when Peace here does house
He comes with work to do, he does not come to coo,
He comes to brood and sit.

I say that we are wound With mercy round and round As if with air.

Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales,
All the air things wear that build this world of Wales.

Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

Glory be to God for dappled things.
("Pied Beauty")

Crystal sincerity hath found no shelter but in a fool's cap.

Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices.

Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.

Glory be to God for dappled things.

I CAUGHT this morning morning's minion, king- dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Fal- con, in his riding

We have him [God] before our eyes, masked in the sacred Host

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

No, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee

All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.

The male quality is the creative gift.

Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist.

It is the blight man was born for. It is Margaret you mourn for.

Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.