Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;...”
-- Gerard Manley HopkinsSource : Gerard Manley Hopkins (2009). “Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.29, ReadHowYouWant.com
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“Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices.”
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“The world is charged with the grandeur of God.”
-- Gerard Manley HopkinsSource : 'God's Grandeur' (written 1877)
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“Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.”
-- Gerard Manley HopkinsSource : Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.17, Courier Corporation
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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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“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 lightning to hear him sing.”
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“The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.”
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“I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.”
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“I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow.”
-- Gerard Manley HopkinsSource : 'No worst, there is none' (written 1885)
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“The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies.”
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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.”
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“That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?”
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“I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.”
-- Gerard Manley HopkinsSource : Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.174, Delphi Classics
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“And I have asked to be Where no storms come, Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, And out of the swing of the sea.”
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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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“Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales, All the air things wear that build this world of Wales.”
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“I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these wd. be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism.”
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“Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.”
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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.”
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“When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.”
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“As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame”
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“When we hew or delve: After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.”
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“Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist.”
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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.”
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“Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.”
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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 HopkinsSource : Gerard Manley Hopkins (1937). “The note-books and papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins”
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“My own heart let me 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.”
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“To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop pail, give Him glory, too. God is so great that all things give Him glory if you mean that they should.”
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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...”
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“We have him [God] before our eyes, masked in the sacred Host”
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