Who said “Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in…”?

“Language is the dress of thought.”

“Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.”

“Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.”

“Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.”

“We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.”

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

“You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.”

“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?”

“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.”