This land is a little land; too much shut up within the narrow seas, as it seems, to have much space for swelling into hugeness. . .
Source: Hopes and Fears for Art, The Lesser Arts (1882; repr. in Collected Works, vol. 22). Some people praise this homeliness overmuch, Morris added.
-- William Morris, (Mar 24 1834-1896), English craftsman, poet; He was noted for his wallpaper and tapestry designs, and wrote The Life and Death of Jason, 1862.