The more thoroughly the lover of Nature is skilled in the knowledge of her laws, the greater will be the intellectual pleasure with which he will contemplate them; and the poet who can follow Nature into her secret chambers, and commune with her on her deepest phenomena, will be the poet who has the noblest things to say to the human soul.

In: the Browning Society, The Browning Society's Papers, Chapter XXX (p. 36), N. Trübner & C. 1885-1886