“Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.”

Interview, The Paris Review No. 80, Spring 2000 http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/730/the-art-of-poetry-no-80-geoffrey-hill

Source: In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981, Chapter 7, In Praise Of Politics, p. 140.

Source: Dialogues in Limbo (1926), P. 30

God Knows (1984)

The Shared Patio (2005)
Context: Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it is really worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you. They are as much for you as they are for other people. Remember this when you wake up in the morning and think you have nothing. Stand up and face the east. Now praise the sky and praise the light within each person under the sky. It's okay to be unsure. But praise, praise, praise.

1023
Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960)

Speaking of newspaper critics, as quoted in Mother of all the Behans: The story of Kathleen Behan as told to Brian Behan (1984) by Kathleen Behan and Brian Behan, p. 119

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Variant: 3162. Learning makes a good Man better, and an ill Man worse.

Canticle of the Sun