Journal Entry: November 5, 1892

“All great poets are teachers. It is one test of the great poet; What does he teach us? He helps us to master life, to understand life.”

Journal Entry: May 19, 1892

“A day of heavy cloud, peculiar, such a sense of mass and spread, the clouds with those long strong clearly-defined keel-shaped bottoms one occasionally sees: sometimes the effect was like that of a vast groined or slightly arched ceiling. Seldom have I seen such weight, solidity and power in clouds. I have observed that it never rains out of such clouds as long as this appearance continues; they must be smoothed down and melted or softened before it rains.”

Journal Entry: July 14, 1892

“Now at 7  P.M. great masses of cumulus clouds in the east all turned to gold by the sinking sun. The glow falls upon me here in my summer house like a huge lamp. Indicates a change in weather.”