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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 hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Criticism, Nuggets, Pearls

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Time has three dimensions and one positive pitch or direction. It is therefore not so much like any river or any sea as like the Sea of Galilee, which has the Jordan running through it and giving a current to the whole.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Running, Time, Sea

  1881 'Creation and Redemption: The Great Sacrifice'. Collected in C Devlin (ed) The Sermons and Devotional Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1959), ch.8.

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• I think that the trivialness of life is, and personally to each one, ought to be seen to be, done away with by the Incarnation.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Thinking, Done, Life Is

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

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• Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Time, Rain, Roots

  'Thou art indeed just, Lord' (written 1889)

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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