Gerard Manley Hopkins quotes - page 4

Wild air, world-mothering air, Nestling me everywhere, That each eyelash or hair Girdles; goes home betwixt The fleeciest, frailest-fixed Snowflake; that's fairly mixed With, riddles, and is rife In every least thing's life. (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
How to keep-is there any any, is there none such, nowhere known some, bow or brooch or braid or brace, lace, latch or catch or key to keep Back beauty, keep it, beauty, beauty, beauty, ... from vanishing away? View quote
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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. View quote
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Felix Randal the farrier, O he is dead then? my duty all ended, Who have watched his mould of man, big-boned and hardy-handsome Pining, pining, till time when reason rambled in it and some Fatal four disorders, fleshed there, all contended? View quote
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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. View quote
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The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened. View quote
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Over again I feel thy finger and find thee. View quote
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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... View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies! O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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. View quote
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Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies! O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there! (Gerard Manley Hopkins)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Occupation: English Poet
Born: July 28, 1844
Died: June 8, 1889
Quotes count: 86
Wikipedia: Gerard Manley Hopkins

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