Gerard Manley Hopkins: Quotes about the world

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Gerard Manley Hopkins: 162 quotes5 likes

“What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

" Inversnaid http://www.bartleby.com/122/33.html, lines 13-16 <br class="br">Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918) <br class="br">Source: Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Complete Poems

“The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

" God's Grandeur http://www.bartleby.com/122/7.html", lines 1-4 <br class="br">Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Journal (24 February 1873)
Letters, etc

“For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved, condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Comments on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola

“World-mothering air, air wild,
Wound with thee, in thee isled,
Fold home, fast fold thy child.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

"The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe", lines 124-126
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales,
All the air things wear that build this world of Wales.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

" In the Valley of the Elwy http://www.bartleby.com/122/16.html", lines 9-10 <br class="br">Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

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

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Sermon (23 November 1879)
Letters, etc

“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

“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 <br class="br">Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“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)

“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