Gerard Manley Hopkins: Trending quotes (page 3)

“Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

" Spring and Fall http://www.bartleby.com/122/31.html", lines 1-2
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“It kills me to be time’s eunuch and never to beget.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Letter to Robert Bridges (1 September 1885)
Letters, etc

Time

“I say that we are wound
With mercy round and round
As if with air.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

"The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe", lines 34-36
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“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

Letter to E.H. Coleridge (22 January 1866)
Letters, etc

Life , Thinking , Personality

“Our Lord Jesus Christ, my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Sermon (23 November 1879)
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World , Christ

“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.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

"Spring and Fall", lines 12-15
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

Heart

“I am gall, I am heartburn. God's most deep decree
Bitter would have me taste: my taste was me;
Bones built in me, flesh filled, blood brimmed the curse.
Selfyeast of spirit a dull dough sours. I see
The lost are like this, and their scourge to be
As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

"I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day", lines 9-14
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

God

“When, when, Peace, will you, Peace? I’ll not play hypocrite
To own my heart: I yield you do come sometimes; but
That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows
Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

" Peace http://www.bartleby.com/122/22.html", lines 3-6
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

Death , War , Peace , Heart

“The widow of an insight lost she lives, with aim
Now known and hand at work now never wrong.
Sweet fire the sire of muse, my soul needs this;
I want the one rapture of an inspiration.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

" To R. B. http://www.bartleby.com/122/51.html", lines 7-10
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

Soul

“Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise
Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour
Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier
Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies?”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

" Hurrahing in Harvest http://www.bartleby.com/122/14.html", lines 1-4
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

Love , Beauty , Summer

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

Gerard Manley Hopkins

" Summa http://www.bartleby.com/122/52.html", lines 1-4
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

Truth

“Ask of her, the mighty mother:
Her reply puts this other
Question: What is Spring?—
Growth in everything.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

" The May Magnificat http://www.bartleby.com/122/18.html", stanza 4
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

Spring , Question

“Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Letter to Coventry Patmore, published in The Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges (1955), edited by C. C. Abbott, p. 263
Letters, etc

Nature

“"Hurrahing in Harvest", lines 5-6”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

"God's Grandeur", lines 5-8
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

Feeling

“Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend
With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just.
Why do sinners’ ways prosper? and why must
Disappointment all I endeavour end?”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

" Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend http://www.bartleby.com/122/50.html", lines 1-4
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

Art , Disappointment , Way

“O if we but knew what we do
When we delve or hew—
Hack and rack the growing green!
Since country is so tender
To touch, her being so slender,
That, like this sleek and seeing ball
But a prick will make no eye at all,
Where we, even where we mean
To mend her we end her,
When we hew or delve:
After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

"Binsey Poplars", stanza 2
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

Beauty , Country

“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

Comments on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola

“I caught this morning morning’s minion, king-
dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy!”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

" The Windhover http://www.bartleby.com/122/12.html", lines 1-5
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“Take breath and read it with the ears, as I always wish to be read, and my verse becomes all right.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Letter to Robert Bridges (25 October 1879 )
Letters, etc

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