Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

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.
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Nature, Beautiful, Long

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Beauty, Comparison, Relation

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Live, Long, Once

Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Doubt, Happened, Horrible

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Great, Nothing, Done

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.
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Great, Mind, Heart

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Time, Poetry, Happy

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.
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Religion, Deep, Reality

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

Studying, Admire, Effect

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

Age, Language, Current

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: July 28, 1844

Died: June 8, 1889

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