“Shape nothing, lips; be lovely-dumb:
It is the shut, the curfew sent
From there where all surrenders come
Which only makes you eloquent.”

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

"The Habit of Perfection", lines 5 - 8
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

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English poet 1844–1889

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