Gerard Manley Hopkins - Heart Quotes

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I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes,
Down all that glory in the heavens to glean our Saviour.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

When, when, Peace, will you, Peace? I'll not play hypocrite
To own my heart: I yield you do come sometimes; but
That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows
Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?

Gerard Manley Hopkins

My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird,—the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It ís the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

My own heart let me have more have pity on; let
Me live to my sad self hereafter kind,
Charitable; not live this tormented mind
With this tormented mind tormenting yet.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Ah! as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, not spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you will weep and know why.

Gerard Manley Hopkins