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
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The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices.Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Our Lord Jesus Christ , my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.Gerard Manley Hopkins
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The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.Gerard Manley Hopkins
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May is Mary's month, and I / Muse at that and wonder why: / Her feasts follow reason, / Dated due to season—Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Candlemas, Lady Day; / But the Lady Month, May, / Why fasten that upon her, / With a feasting in her honour?Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Well but there was more than this: / Spring's universal bliss / Much, had much to say / To offering Mary May.Gerard Manley Hopkins
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As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame.Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Sometimes a lantern moves along the night, that interests our eyes. Gerard Manley Hopkins
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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
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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
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Now but to breathe its praise, minds me in many ways.Gerard Manley Hopkins
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.Gerard Manley Hopkins
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My heart in hiding / Stirred for a bird,—the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!Gerard Manley Hopkins
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The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.Gerard Manley Hopkins