Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power. (Matthew Arnold)

Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.

Matthew Arnold

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