"The poetical language of an age should be……" — Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

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42 Quotes by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins has 42 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This…
We have him [God] before our eyes, masked in the sacred Host
What you look at hard seems to look at you.
Life death all does end and each day dies with sleep.
Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that…
The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in…
What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we…
Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.
It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time…
Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.
By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of…
But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew…

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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