Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes - Page 2

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

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Heart, Past, Ivy

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1995). “"God's Grandeur" and Other Poems”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Relation, Apprehension, Hopkins

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.91, Delphi Classics

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

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Death, Sleep, Dying

  Gerard Manley Hopkins, “No Worst, There Is None. Pitched Past Pitch Of Grief”

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

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Study, Admire, Masterpiece

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing; The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling. What is all this juice and all this joy? A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning In Eden garden.-Have, get, before it cloy.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Beautiful, Weed, Sweet

  'Spring' (written 1877)

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

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Doubt, Horrible, Tennyson

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

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• I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Beauty, Nature, Eye

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1954). “Poems and prose”

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• All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Fire, Yield, Giving

  Peter Milward, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Raymond V. Schoder (1975). “Landscape and inscape: vision and inspiration in Hopkins's poetry”, Elektrohas

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• Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Solitude, Companion, Ecstasy

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

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• By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Race, Gentleman, Done

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.221, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Beauty, Beautiful, Flower

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1954). “Poems and prose”

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• O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small Durance deal with that steep or deep.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Fall, Men, Long

  "No worst, there is none" l. 9 (written 1885)

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

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Peace, War, Alarms

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2009). “Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.53, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• And though we do have him before our eyes, masked in the Sacred Host, at mass and Benediction and within our lips receive him at communion, yet to hear of him and dwell on the thought of him will do us good.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Eye, Sacred, Host

  "The note-books and papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins".

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

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Three, Truth Is, Glory

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1961). “Poems: The First Edition”

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

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Dark, Night, Insomnia

  Gerard Manley Hopkins, Bob Blaisdell (2011). “Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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• But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman’s mind to be more like my own than any other man’s living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Heart, Men, Mind

  Quoted in Denis Donoghue England, Their England (1988).

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• 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.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Christ, Poor, Patches

  'That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire' (written 1888)

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• For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Greatness, Thinking, Two

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1976). “Gerard Manley Hopkins: poetry and prose”

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• And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs— Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Faith, Morning, Spring

  'God's Grandeur' (written 1877)

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• What is all this juice and all this joy?
  A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning
  In Eden garden.-Have, get, before it cloy,
  Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,
  Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,
  Most, O maid's child, thy choice and worthy the winning.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Girl, Sweet, Children

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.1887, Delphi Classics

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• Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Genius, Originality, Poetic

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.251, Delphi Classics

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• I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Criticism, Nuggets, Pearls

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

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• And the headbonny ash that sits over the burn.
  What would the world be, once bereft
  Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
  O Let them be left, wildness and wet:
  Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Weed, Nature, Long

  1881 'Inversnaid'.

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