richness quotes

The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush With richness.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  'Spring'.

I take these to be the seven great facts and doctrines concerning Godhis richness; his double action, natural and supernatural; his perfect freedom; his delightfulness; his otherness; his adorableness and his prevenience.

- Friedrich von, Baron Hu«  gel
The Life of Prayer (published1927).

When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence.When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

-John F(itzgerald) Kennedy
   At the dedication of  Amherst College Robert Frost Library, 25 Oct.