Gerard Manley Hopkins: Thing

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Gerard Manley Hopkins: 162 quotes5 likes

“Glory be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

" Pied Beauty http://www.bartleby.com/122/13.html", lines 1-3 <br class="br">Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“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

“He is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should. So then, my brethren, live.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Principle or Foundation

“I consider my selfbeing … that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of ale or alum, more distinctive than the smell of walnutleaf or camphor, and is incommunicable by any means to another man.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Comments on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola

“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)

“All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins Pied Beauty

"Pied Beauty", lines 7-11
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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)