Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes
The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fallFrightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.
Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.
NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee;Not untwist—slack they may be—these last ...
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Show MoreReligion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to ...
Show MoreWhere lies your landmark, seamark, or soul's star?
No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillionShine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall,...
Show MoreThe Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.
It is the blight man was born for. It is Margaret you mourn for.
Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's ...
Show MoreThe world is charged with the grandeur of God.
No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder ...
Show MoreThe effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. So it must be on every or...
Show More...O if we but knew what to do When we delve or hew— Hack and rack the growing green! Since country ...
Show More...Where we, even where we mean To mend her we end her, When we hew or delve:After-comers cannot gue...
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