Gerard Manley Hopkins Short Quotes

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As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame.

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There lives the dearest freshness deep down things.

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Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?

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Abel is Cain's brother and breasts they have sucked the same.

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

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Brute beauty and valor and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here Buckle!

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

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Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.

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

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

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

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Our Lord Jesus Christ, my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.

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

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

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

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

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

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That night, that year
Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God.

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

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A great work by an Englishman is like a great battle won by England. It is an unfading bay tree.

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World-mothering air, air wild,
Wound with thee, in thee isled,
Fold home, fast fold thy child.

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He is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should. So then, my brethren, live.

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This piece-bright paling shuts the spouse
Christ home, Christ and his mother and all his hallows.

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Take breath and read it with the ears, as I always wish to be read, and my verse becomes all right.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.

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