Quotes by Gerard Manley Hopkins

“...Where we, even where we mean To mend her we end her, When we hew or delve:After-comers cannot guess the beauty been. Ten or twelve, only ten or twelve Strokes of havoc nselve The sweet especial ...”

“...O if we but knew what to do When we delve or hew Hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender To touch, her being s slender,”

“NOT, Ill not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee;Not untwistslack they may bethese last strands of manIn me r, most weary, cry I can no more. I can;Can something, hope, wish day come, not ...”

“The world is charged with the grandeur of God.”

“All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him.”

“What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.”

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

“O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fallFrightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.”

“One could say that Hopkins practiced transubstantiation in every poem. By mysterious talent, he changed plain element into reality sublime. He encountered a jumble of weather, birds, trees, branche...”

“The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.”

“Where lies your landmark, seamark, or soul's star?”

“No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.Comforter, where, where is your comforting?Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?My crie...”

“What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is known, is widely known, the wider known the better, for it is by being known that it wo...”

“The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. So it must be on every original artist to some degree, on me to a marked degree.(from notes on 'Heraclitean Fire')”

“No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillionShine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.”

“It is the blight man was born for. It is Margaret you mourn for.”

“The Incarnation of Christ raised the energy of everything. And when Hopkins placed his conviction of this into poetry, he tended to mention electricity, lightening, fire, flash, flame. He wrote in ...”

“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 e...”

“The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.”

“Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.”