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Christ Eyes Ghosts Giving Glory Heart Joy

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Men, Self, Determined

Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.1880, Delphi Classics

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Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift molded ever and melted across skies?

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Summer, Clouds, Wind

Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Hurrahing In Harvest”

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I can scarcely fancy myself to ask a superior to publish a volume of my verse and I own that humanly there is very little likelihood of that ever coming to pass. And to be sure if I chose to look at things on one side and not the other I could of course regret this bitterly. But there is more peace and it isthe holier lot to be unknown than to be known.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Regret, Looks, Littles

1881 Letter to Richard Watson Dixon, 29 Oct. Collected in C C Abbott (ed) The Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Richard Watson Dixon (1935).

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Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Self, Taste, My Own

Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.1880, Delphi Classics

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The male quality is the creative gift.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Creative, Quality, Males

Quoted in C C Abbott (ed) Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Richard Watson Dixon (1935).

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Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales,
All the air things wear that build this world of Wales.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Air, Water, Lovely

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1995). “"God's Grandeur" and Other Poems”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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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.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Heart, Men, Mind

Quoted in Denis Donoghue England, Their England (1988).

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It seems then that it is not the excellence of any two things (or more) in themselves, but those two things as viewed by the light of each other, that makes beauty.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Light, Two, Excellence

Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.90, Delphi Classics

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I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these wd. be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Mind, Church, Accessories

Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.153, Delphi Classics

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Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Communism, Communist, Horrible

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1954). “Poems and prose”

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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.

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Mother, Stars, Spring

Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Fall, Blue, Shining

Gerard Manley Hopkins (2001). “Poemas”, p.32, Editorial Renacimiento

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As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Nature, Fire, Flames

Gerard Manley Hopkins (2004). “Hopkins: The Mystic Poets”, p.55, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Fall, Men, Mind

"No worst, there is none" l. 9 (written 1885)

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The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Self, Brave, Greek

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gerald Roberts (1980). “Selected prose”

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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

Beautiful, Weed, Nature

Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring”

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What is all this juice and all this joy?

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Joy, Juice, Spring Poems

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1995). “"God's Grandeur" and Other Poems”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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And I have asked to be
Where no storms come,
Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,
And out of the swing of the sea.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Swings, Sea, Dumb

'No worst, there is none' (written 1885)

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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

Reality, People, Impression

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1991). “Selected Letters”, Oxford University Press, USA

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My own heart let me more have pity on; let
Me live to my sad self hereafter kind,
Charitable; not live this tormented mind
With this tormented mind tormenting
yet.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Heart, Self, Mind

Gerard Manley Hopkins (2009). “Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.94, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Shelter, Fool, Crystals

1864 'Floris in Italy'. Collected in H House and G Storey (eds) The Journals and Papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1959), p.42.

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Spring and Fall: To a Young Child Márgarét, are you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves, líke the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! ás the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you wíll weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sórrow's spríngs áre the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It ís the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.

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Children, Lying, Spring

Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.31, Delphi Classics

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For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Determination, Self, World

Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.1880, Delphi Classics

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When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Self, Degrees, Individualism

GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1967). “THE SERMONS AND DEVOTIONAL WRITINGS OF GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS”

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When we hew or delve:
After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins (2004). “Hopkins: The Mystic Poets”, p.56, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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Born: July 28, 1844
Died: June 8, 1889
Occupation: Poet
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