Gerard Manley Hopkins: Doing

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“You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing, interest ceases also…”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Letter to Robert Bridges (24 October 1883)
Letters, etc
Context: You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing, interest ceases also... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest;... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest.

“What I do is me: for that I came.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

"As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame" http://www.embodiment-of-freedom.com/persfree/hopkins.html (undated poem, c. March - April 1877) - Analysis and information regarding this poem at the Gerard Manley Hopkins Society http://www.gerardmanleyhopkins.org/lectures_2004/As_Kingfishers_analysis.html

“Any day, any minute we bless God for our being or for anything, for food, for sunlight, we do and are what we were meant for, made for — things that give and mean to give God glory.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Principle or Foundation

God , Food

“It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smiting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping, scouring, everything gives God some glory if being in his grace you do it as your duty.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Principle or Foundation

God , Horse

“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

“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

“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