"No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough……" — 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."
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42 Quotes by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This…
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We have him [God] before our eyes, masked in the sacred Host
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What you look at hard seems to look at you.
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Life death all does end and each day dies with sleep.
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Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that…
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The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in…
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What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we…
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Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.
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It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time…
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Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.
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By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of…
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But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew…
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
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Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
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