Gerard Manley Hopkins: Trending quotes (page 4)

“Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Letter to A.W.M. Baillie (10 September 1864)
Letters, etc

“No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

" No Worst, There Is None http://www.bartleby.com/122/41.html", lines 1-2
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

School , Past

“A great work by an Englishman is like a great battle won by England. It is an unfading bay tree.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Letter to Robert Bridges (13 October 1886)
Letters, etc

Tree

“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

Comments on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola

“That is the great end of empires before God, to be Catholic and draw nations into their Catholicism. But our empire is less and less Christian as it grows.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Letter to Coventry Patmore (4 June 1886)
Letters, etc

God , Drawing

“For myself I make no secret, I look forward with eager desire to seeing the matchless beauty of Christ’s body in the heavenly light.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Sermon (23 November 1879)
Letters, etc

Secret , Beauty , Light , Christ

“Poor Felix Randal;
How far from then forethought of, all thy more boisterous years,
When thou at the random grim forge, powerful amidst peers,
Didst fettle for the great grey drayhorse his bright and battering sandal!”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

"Felix Randal", lines 11-14
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

"Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend", line 14
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

Life

“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

Diary (April 1864)
Letters, etc

World , Time , Flying , Happiness

“There lives the dearest freshness deep down things.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

"God's Grandeur," line 10
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“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

"On the Origin of Beauty: A Platonic Dialogue"
Letters, etc

Beauty , Light

“Natural heart’s ivy, Patience masks
Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

" Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray http://www.bartleby.com/122/46.html", lines 6-7
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

Nature , Past , Heart , Patience

“O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne’er hung there. Nor does long our small
Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,
Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

"No Worst, There Is None", lines 9 -15
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

Life , Death , Mountain , Sleep

“On this day by God's grace I resolved to give up all beauty until I had His leave for it.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Journal entry (6 November 1865), as reported in In Extremity: A Study of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1978) by John Robinson, p. 1

God , Beauty

“Wild air, world-mothering air,
Nestling me everywhere,
That each eyelash or hair
Girdles; goes home betwixt
The fleeciest, frailest-fixed
Snowflake; that’s fairly mixed
With, riddles, and is rife
In every least thing’s life.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

" The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe http://www.bartleby.com/122/37.html", lines 1-8
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

Life , World , Home

“How to keep—is there any any, is there none such, nowhere known some, bow or brooch or braid or brace, lace, latch or catch or key to keep
Back beauty, keep it, beauty, beauty, beauty, … from vanishing away?”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

" The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo http://www.bartleby.com/122/36.html: The Leaden Echo, lines 1-2
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

Beauty

“Ah! as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, not spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you will weep and know why.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

"Spring and Fall", lines 5-9
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

Lie , World , Heart

“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

Letter to Robert Bridges (3 February 1883)
Letters, etc

World

“Felix Randal the farrier, O he is dead then? my duty all ended,
Who have watched his mould of man, big-boned and hardy-handsome
Pining, pining, till time when reason rambled in it and some
Fatal four disorders, fleshed there, all contended?”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

" Felix Randal http://www.bartleby.com/122/29.html", lines 1-4
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

Time , Dead

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

Gerard Manley Hopkins

"On the Origin of Beauty: A Platonic Dialogue"
Letters, etc

Beauty