Gerard Manley Hopkins

“After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.”

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

The male quality is the creative gift.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Glory be to God for dappled things.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.”

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

I say that we are wound With mercy round and round As if with air.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Our Lord Jesus Christ , my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

I awoke in the Midsummer not-to-call night, in the white and the walk of the morning

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life,…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales, All the air things wear that build this world of Wales.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Nothing is so beautiful as Spring- When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; (from "Spring")”

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they…

— 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…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. So it must be on every original artist to…

— 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…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of man In me ór,…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

And the headbonny ash that sits over the burn. What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil? Generations have trod, have…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

I can scarcely fancy myself to ask a superior to publish a volume of my verse and I own that humanly there…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Glory be to God for dappled things- For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“I bear a basket lined with grass; I am so light, I am so fair, That men must wonder as I pass…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Ask of Her, the mighty Mother. Her reply puts this other Question: What is Spring?- Growth in every thing - Flesh and…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“But ah, but O thou terrible, why wouldst thou rude on me Thy wring-earth right foot rock? lay a lionlimb against me?…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

For myself I make no secret, I look forward with eager desire to seeing the matchless beauty of Christ's body in the…

— 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

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

Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices.

— 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

And I have asked to be Where no storms come, Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, And out of…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Glory be to God for dappled things for skies of couple-color as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins