• All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak.

    Coventry Patmore: All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak.
    Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.13, Lulu.com