Who said “You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is…”?

“All things come from above.”

“Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.”

“Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.”

“The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.”

“The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.”

“Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.”

“Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.”

“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.”

“He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?”

“Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.”

“All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light. And though I seem to have been driven out of my country here as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.”