The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened, to any degree heightened and unlike itself, but not...an obsolete one. (Gerard Manley Hopkins)

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened, to any degree heightened and unlike itself, but not...an obsolete one.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Related topics

age degree language should

Related quotes

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside -- from others. We do not accept it willingly. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three. View quote
Philip Larkin
You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age They were not such a plague when I was young What else have I to spur me into song. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Words should be employed as the means, not as the end: language is the instrument, conviction is the work. View quote
Joshua Reynolds
Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less. View quote
Robert E. Lee