Chance Quotes by Gerard Manley Hopkins

No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

— 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. Nor does long our…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Time has three dimensions and one positive pitch or direction. It is therefore not so much like any river or any sea as like…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

And though we do have him before our eyes, masked in the Sacred Host, at mass and Benediction and within our lips receive him…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

All the world is full of inscapeand chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins