G. K. Chesterton on John Ruskin
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“The point and stab of his challenge still really stands and sticks, like a dagger in a dead man.”
“As an artist in prose he is one of the most miraculous products of the extremely poetical genius of England. The length of a Ruskin sentence is like that length in the long arrow that was boasted of by the drawers of the bow. He draws, not a cloth-yard shaft but a long lance to his ear: he shoots a spear. But the whole goes light as a bird and straight as a bullet.”