Crystal sincerity hath found no shelter but in a fool's cap. Gerard Manley Hopkins More Quotes by Gerard Manley Hopkins More Quotes From 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 needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds. Gerard Manley Hopkins nuggetspearlscriticism I think that the trivialness of life is, and personally to each one, ought to be seen to be, done away with by the Incarnation. Gerard Manley Hopkins donelife-isthinking The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened. Gerard Manley Hopkins languageshouldage God?is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should. Gerard Manley Hopkins glorygivingmean Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose. Gerard Manley Hopkins ivyheartpast For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great. Gerard Manley Hopkins greatnesstwothinking I can scarcely fancy myself to ask a superior to publish a volume of my verse and I own that humanly there is very little likelihood of that ever coming to pass. And to be sure if I chose to look at things on one side and not the other I could of course regret this bitterly. But there is more peace and it isthe holier lot to be unknown than to be known. Gerard Manley Hopkins regretlittleslooks By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind. Gerard Manley Hopkins gentlemandonerace It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. Gerard Manley Hopkins royalflyingworld 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 shiningbluefall I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it. Gerard Manley Hopkins flowerbeautifulbeauty What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is known, is widely known, the wider known the better, for it is by being known that it works, it influences, it does its duty, it does good. We must try, then, to be known, aim at it, take means to it. And this without puffing in the process or pride in the success. Gerard Manley Hopkins pridemeanart And the headbonny ash that sits over the burn. Gerard Manley Hopkins weednaturelong Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings. Gerard Manley Hopkins ghostwingsworld I consider my selfbeing ... that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of ale or alum, more distinctive than the smell of walnutleaf or camphor, and is incommunicable by any means to another man. Gerard Manley Hopkins smellmenmean Ask of Her, the mighty Mother. Gerard Manley Hopkins starsmotherspring Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain. Gerard Manley Hopkins rootsraintime Time has three dimensions and one positive pitch or direction. It is therefore not so much like any river or any sea as like the Sea of Galilee, which has the Jordan running through it and giving a current to the whole. Gerard Manley Hopkins seatimerunning I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these wd. be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism. Gerard Manley Hopkins accessorieschurchmind Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished. Gerard Manley Hopkins ecstasycompanionsolitude
