Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes


Where no storms come, / Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, / And out of the swing of the sea. - 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


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


There lives the dearest freshness deep down things . . . . - Gerard Manley Hopkins


The world is charged with the grandeur of God. - Gerard Manley Hopkins


The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened. - Gerard Manley Hopkins


The fine delight that fathers thought; the strong / Spur, live and lancing like the blowpipe flame, / Breathes once and, quenchud faster than it came, / Leaves yet the mind a mother of immortal song. - Gerard Manley Hopkins


The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. - Gerard Manley Hopkins


The achieve of, the mastery of the thing! - Gerard Manley Hopkins


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