“On this day by God's grace I resolved to give up all beauty until I had His leave for it.”

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Journal entry (6 November 1865), as reported in In Extremity: A Study of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1978) by John Robinson, p. 1

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