Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

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• The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  World, Grandeur

  "God's Grandeur" l. 1 (written 1877)

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

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Choices, Identity, Boundaries

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• To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop pail, give Him glory, too. God is so great that all things give Him glory if you mean that they should.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Prayer, Mean, Men

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

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Beautiful, Weed, Spring

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2009). “Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.29, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Glory be to God for dappled things-
  For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
  For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
  Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;
  Landscape plotted and pieced-fold, fallow, and plough;
  And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
  
  All things counter, original, spare, strange;
  Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
  With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
  He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
  Praise him.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Life, Sweet, Couple

  "Pied Beauty" l. 7 (written 1877)

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• What you look at hard seems to look at you.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Looks, Seems, Hard

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1966). “A Hopkins reader: selections”

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

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Fall, Order, Purpose

  Donald McChesney, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1968). “A Hopkins Commentary: an Explanatory Commentary on the Main Poems, 1876-89”

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

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Writing, Poetry, Literature

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.174, Delphi Classics

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• What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is known, is widely known, the wider known the better, for it is by being known that it works, it influences, it does its duty, it does good. We must try, then, to be known, aim at it, take means to it. And this without puffing in the process or pride in the success.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Art, Mean, Pride

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1991). “Selected Letters”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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

  Spring, Blow, Lilies

  'No worst, there is none' (written 1885)

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• What I do is me, for that I came.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2004). “Hopkins: The Mystic Poets”, p.55, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Age, Language, Should

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1967). “Selections; chosen and edited by Graham Storey”

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

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Self, Giving, Giver

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Light, Secret, Desire

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2004). “Hopkins: The Mystic Poets”, p.22, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• When a man is in God's grace and free from mortal sin, then everything that he does, so long as there is no sin in it, gives God glory and what does not give him glory has some, however little, sin in it. It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smiting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping, scouring, everything gives God some glory if being in his grace you do it as your duty.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Horse, Prayer, Wall

  "Poems and Prose".

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

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Kill Me, Begets, Eunuchs

  1885 Letter to Robert Bridges, 1 Sep. Collected in C C Abbott (ed) The Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Robert Bridges (1935).

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• The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wearsman'ssmudgeand sharesman'ssmell: thesoil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Flames, Feet, Shining

  'God's Grandeur' (written 1877)

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• Glory be to God for dappled things.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Trout, Moles, Glory

  "Pied Beauty" l. 1 (written 1877)

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

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Air, Mercy, Rounds

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.37, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Father, Eye, Men

  Gerard Manley Hopkins, Bob Blaisdell (2011). “Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of man In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Men, Wish, Despair

  'Duns Scotus's Oxford' (written 1879)

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• 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

  Music, Silence, Ears

  'The Habit of Perfection' (written 1866)

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• 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

  Nature, Stars, Fire

  'The Starlight Night' (written 1877)

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• Any day, any minute we bless God for our being or for anything, for food, for sunlight, we do and are what we were meant for, madefor--things that give and mean to give God glory.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Mean, Giving, Praise

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1937). “The note-books and papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins”

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

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Easter, East, Crimson

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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