"I think no one can admire beauty of the body more than I do and it is of course a comfort to find beauty in a friend or a friend in beauty. But this kind of beauty is dangerous."
- in a letter to Robert Bridges
"...the higher and more attractive parts of the art put a strain upon the passions."
- from a letter to Mowbray Baillie - on his reasons for not pursuing his ambition to paint
"Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished: you want to be alone and to feel that, and leisure--all pressure taken off."
- written in his journal while travelling in Switzerland
""No doubt, my poetry errs on the side of oddness…" "
