Quotes by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins

All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.

Fall

Order

Purpose

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.

Fire

Giving

Yield

And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs— Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

Faith

Morning

Spring

And the headbonny ash that sits over the burn. 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.

Long

Nature

Weed

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame

Fire

Flames

Nature

Ask of Her, the mighty Mother. Her reply puts this other Question: What is Spring?- Growth in every thing – Flesh and fleece, fur and feather, Grass and green world all together, Star-eyed strawberry breasted Throstle above Her nested Cluster of bugle blue eggs thin Forms and warms the life within, And bird and blossom swell In sod or sheath or shell.

Mother

Spring

Stars

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

Apprehension

Hopkins

Relation

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

Ghost

Wings

World

But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that 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.

Heart

Men

Mind

Crystal sincerity hath found no shelter but in a fool’s cap.

Crystals

Fool

Shelter

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Communist

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Crystals

Dark

Degrees

Despair

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Disappointment

Done

Ears

East

Easter

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Eye

Faith

Fall

Father

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Quotes by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins

All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.

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.

And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs— Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

And the headbonny ash that sits over the burn. 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.

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame

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

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that 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.

Crystal sincerity hath found no shelter but in a fool’s cap.

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