Quote by 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.

— 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 Of the…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“As one who wills, and then unwills his will, Changing his mind with every changing whim, Till all his best intentions come to nil,…

— Dante Alighieri

“Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander everywhere, Swifter than the moon's…

— William Shakespeare

“It was a sight full of quick wonder and awe! The vast swells of the omnipotent sea; the surging, hollow roar they made, as…

— Ishmael

“A slow trickle of lust crawled painfully down the parched gully of desire, and ended feebly in dry fumbling lechery.”

— Thomas Wolfe

“I burn the clouds, Knowing that remembrance has thorny flasks. I plough the sky by sea, Knowing that tears are bluer than my joy.…

— Basim Furat

“Seen and unseen, the great and the unknown tumbled together in a writhing heap as the bow plunged deeper and the stern rose higher.”

— Walter Lord

“So from the mould Scarlet and Gold Many a Bulb will rise -- Hidden away, cunningly, From sagacious eyes. So from Cocoon Many a…

— Emily Dickinson

“Always come down from the barren heights of cleverness into the green valleys of folly.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud.”

— William Shakespeare

“Afterwards the greedy Howeitat saw more oryx in the distance and went after the beasts, who foolishly ran a little; then stood still and…

— T.E. Lawrence