"who can find a way to give a damn that we are drowning in separate stormy seas?"

[H]ad Swinburne practised greater concentration his verse would be, not better in the same kind, but a different thing. His diffuseness is one of his glories. That so little material as appears to be employed in The Triumph of Time should release such an amazing number of words, requires what there is no reason to call anything but genius.

— T.S. Eliot, "Swinburne as Poet

Which is a rather odd essay wherein Mr. High Modernist himself argues that Swinburne was, in effect, a post-modernist.

---L.

Subject quote from "Waiting Under the Waves," Kris Delmhorst.