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Gerard Manley Hopkins was an English poet, Catholic and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. His manipulation of prosody established him as an innovative writer of verse. Two of his major themes were nature and religion.

✵ 28. July 1844 – 8. June 1889   •   Other names جيرارد مانلي هوبكنز, Джерард Менли Хопкинс, 杰拉尔德·曼利·霍普金斯
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Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

“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

“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

“I am all at once what Christ is, ' since he was what I am, and
This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, ' patch, matchwood, immortal diamond,
Is immortal diamond.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

" That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection http://www.bartleby.com/122/48.html", lines 22-24
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

Christ