2 Quotes by Hugh Kenner

One senses that Hegel was possible only in German, and finds it natural that Locke in a language where large and red precede apple should have arrived at the thing after sorting out its sensory qualities, whereas Descartes in a language where grosse et rouge follows pomme should have come to the attributes after the distinct idea.

Chesterton never achieves a great poem because his poems are compilations of statements not intensely felt but only intensely meant.