Gerard Manley Hopkins

Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee:

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

When we hew or delve: After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Life death all does end and each day dies with sleep.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night!

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Shéer plód makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.”

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

I think that the trivialness of life is, and personally to each one, ought to be seen to be, done away with…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies…

— 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…

— 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. As he…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a…

— 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…

— 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…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

My own heart let me more have pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind, Charitable; not live this…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are…

— 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…

— 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,…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

When a man is in God's grace and free from mortal sin, then everything that he does, so long as there is…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“I awoke in the Midsummer not to call night, in the white and the walk of the morning: The moon, dwindled and…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Into the snows she sweeps, Hurling the haven behind, The Deutschland, on Sunday; and so the sky keeps, For the infinite air…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing interest ceases also… But…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Spring and Fall: To a Young Child Márgarét, are you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves, líke the things of man, you With…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Thou mastering me God! giver of breath and bread; World’s strand, sway of the sea; Lord of living and dead; Thou hast…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend’ THOU art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“As Kingfishers Catch Fire As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Comforter, where, where is…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“The Windhover To Christ our Lord I CAUGHT this morning morning’s minion, king- dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

What you look at hard seems to look at you.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

What is all this juice and all this joy?

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

We have him [God] before our eyes, masked in the sacred Host

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Crystal sincerity hath found no shelter but in a fool's cap.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins