Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

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The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush
The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush
With richness.

Gerard Manley Hopkins
I did say yes
O at lightning and lashed rod;
Thou heardst me truer than tongue confess
Thy terror, O Christ, O God.

Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?

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

Gerard Manley Hopkins
Thou mastering me
God! giver of breath and bread;
World's strand, sway of the sea;
Lord of living and dead;
Thou hast bound bones and veins in me, fastened me flesh,
And after it almost unmade, what with dread,
Thy doing: and dost thou touch me afresh?
Over again I feel thy finger and find thee.

Gerard Manley Hopkins
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
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there.

Gerard Manley Hopkins
I am surprised you should say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these would be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism.

Gerard Manley Hopkins
To know what creation is look at the size of the world. Speed of light: it would fly six or seven times around the world while the clock ticks once. Yet it takes thousands of years to reach us from the Milky Way.

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

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

Gerard Manley Hopkins