Gerard Manley Hopkins Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Gerard Manley Hopkins quotes, Gerard Manley Hopkins sayings, and Gerard Manley Hopkins proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there! Gerard Manley Hopkins
The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. Gerard Manley Hopkins
Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices. Gerard Manley Hopkins
Our Lord Jesus Christ , my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants. Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One. Gerard Manley Hopkins
May is Mary's month, and I / Muse at that and wonder why: / Her feasts follow reason, / Dated due to season— Gerard Manley Hopkins
Candlemas, Lady Day; / But the Lady Month, May, / Why fasten that upon her, / With a feasting in her honour? Gerard Manley Hopkins
Well but there was more than this: / Spring's universal bliss / Much, had much to say / To offering Mary May. Gerard Manley Hopkins
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame. Gerard Manley Hopkins
Sometimes a lantern moves along the night, that interests our eyes. Gerard Manley Hopkins
Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies! / Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! / The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there! Gerard Manley Hopkins
Mannerly-hearted! more than handsome face— / Beauty’s bearing or muse of mounting vein, / All, in this case, bathed in high hallowing grace… Gerard Manley Hopkins
Now but to breathe its praise, minds me in many ways. Gerard Manley Hopkins
Nothing is so beautiful as spring -- / When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; / Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush / Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring / The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing; / The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush / The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling. Gerard Manley Hopkins
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; / And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; / And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell. Gerard Manley Hopkins
What would the world be, once bereft / Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, / O let them be left, wildness and wet; / Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. Gerard Manley Hopkins
How lovely the elder brother’s / Life all laced in the other’s, / Lóve-laced!—what once I well / Witnessed; so fortune fell. / When Shrovetide, two years gone, / Our boys’ plays brought on / Part was picked for John, / Young Jóhn: then fear, then joy / Ran revel in the elder boy. / Their night was come now; all / Our company thronged the hall; / Henry, by the wall, / Beckoned me beside him: / I came where called, and eyed him / By meanwhiles; making my play / Turn most on tender byplay. Gerard Manley Hopkins
How lovely the elder brother’s / Life all laced in the other’s, / Lóve-laced!—what once I well / Witnessed; so fortune fell. Gerard Manley Hopkins
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall / Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. / Hold them cheap / May who ne'er hung there. / 'No worst, there is none. Gerard Manley Hopkins
Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison. Gerard Manley Hopkins
My heart in hiding / Stirred for a bird,—the achieve of, the mastery of the thing! Gerard Manley Hopkins
The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. Gerard Manley Hopkins