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Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

Poet
1844 - 1889
88 quotes

Gerard Manley Hopkins, a poet (1844 - 1889), is quoted 88 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are World, Glory, Self and Men.

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Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

What I do is me, for that I came.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

Glory be to God for dappled things.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

The male quality is the creative gift.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

What is all this juice and all this joy?

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

What you look at hard seems to look at you.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

Life death all does end and each day dies with sleep.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

Crystal sincerity hath found no shelter but in a fool's cap.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

When we hew or delve: After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

I say that we are wound With mercy round and round As if with air.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

God?is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

Our Lord Jesus Christ , my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

I awoke in the Midsummer not-to-call night, in the white and the walk of the morning

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night!

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales, All the air things wear that build this world of Wales.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

And I have asked to be Where no storms come, Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, And out of the swing of the sea.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

I think that the trivialness of life is, and personally to each one, ought to be seen to be, done away with by the Incarnation.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

For myself I make no secret, I look forward with eager desire to seeing the matchless beauty of Christ's body in the heavenly light.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

For Christ plays in ten thousand places,/ Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his/ To the Father through the features of men’s faces.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed.

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poet

I am all at once what Christ is, ' since he was what I am, and This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, ' patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond.

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