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title: "2 Prophetic-imagination Quotes By Margaret R. Ellsberg"
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> [“One could say that Hopkins practiced transubstantiation in every poem. By mysterious talent, he changed plain element into reality sublime. He encountered a jumble of weather, birds, trees, branches, waters, blooms, dewdrops, candle flames, prayers, then instressed them and, delighted,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-r-ellsberg/one-could-say-that-hopkins-practiced-transubstantiation-in-every-poem/)

Margaret R. Ellsberg

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> [“The Incarnation of Christ raised the energy of everything. And when Hopkins placed his conviction of this into poetry, he tended to mention electricity, lightening, fire, flash, flame. He wrote in his late, great poem, "That Nature is a Heraclitean…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-r-ellsberg/the-incarnation-of-christ-raised-the-energy-of-everything-and-when/)

Margaret R. Ellsberg

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## Other authors on Prophetic-imagination

## More by Margaret R. Ellsberg

> [“One could say that Hopkins practiced transubstantiation in every poem. By mysterious talent, he changed plain element into reality sublime. He encountered a jumble…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-r-ellsberg/one-could-say-that-hopkins-practiced-transubstantiation-in-every-poem/)

Margaret R. Ellsberg

> [“The Incarnation of Christ raised the energy of everything. And when Hopkins placed his conviction of this into poetry, he tended to mention electricity,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-r-ellsberg/the-incarnation-of-christ-raised-the-energy-of-everything-and-when/)

Margaret R. Ellsberg

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