Have you read the poems of a man, who is dead, called Gerard Hopkins? I liked them better than any poetry for ever so long; partly because they’re so difficult, but also because instead of writing mere rhythms and sense as most poets do, he makes a very strange jumble; so that what is apparently pure nonsense is at the same time very beautiful and not nonsense at all.
Virginia Woolf to Janet Case, July 23, 1919, from The Letters of Virginia Woolf, volume 2, ed. Nigel Nicholson and Joanne Trautmann, Harcourt,1976 (via bluegrasspoet)