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

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Wings, World, Ghost

  'God's Grandeur' (written 1877)

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

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Mean, Giving, Glory

  1882 'The Principle or Foundation', closing words. Collected in G Roberts (ed) Gerard Manley Hopkins. Selected Prose (1980).

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• 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

  Thinking, Done, Life Is

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

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• Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end?

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Art, Disappointment, Way

  'Thou art indeed just, Lord' (written 1889)

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• I consider my selfbeing ... that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of ale or alum, more distinctive than the smell of walnutleaf or camphor, and is incommunicable by any means to another man.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Mean, Men, Smell

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.1880, Delphi Classics

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

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Morning, Night, White

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2009). “Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.124, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing interest ceases also.... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest;... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Mean, Interesting, Catholic

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

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• For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Determination, Self, World

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.1880, Delphi Classics

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

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Hopkins

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2004). “Hopkins: The Mystic Poets”, p.56, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• 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

  Greatness, Flames, Oil

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1995). “"God's Grandeur" and Other Poems”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Flying, World, Royal

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.1864, Delphi Classics

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