I say that we are wound With mercy round and round As if with air. Gerard Manley Hopkins More Quotes by Gerard Manley Hopkins More Quotes From Gerard Manley Hopkins Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson. Gerard Manley Hopkins tennyson horrible doubt The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. Gerard Manley Hopkins masterpiece admire study The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One. Gerard Manley Hopkins truth-is three glory And though we do have him before our eyes, masked in the Sacred Host, at mass and Benediction and within our lips receive him at communion, yet to hear of him and dwell on the thought of him will do us good. Gerard Manley Hopkins host sacred eye Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be. Gerard Manley Hopkins poetic originality genius What is all this juice and all this joy? Gerard Manley Hopkins juice spring-poems joy The male quality is the creative gift. Gerard Manley Hopkins males quality creative Any day, any minute we bless God for our being or for anything, for food, for sunlight, we do and are what we were meant for, madefor--things that give and mean to give God glory. Gerard Manley Hopkins praise giving mean And I have asked to be Gerard Manley Hopkins swings dumb sea I am all at once what Christ is, ' since he was what I am, and This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, ' patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond. Gerard Manley Hopkins patches poor christ Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales, Gerard Manley Hopkins lovely air water All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him. Gerard Manley Hopkins yield fire giving I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again. Gerard Manley Hopkins nature eye beauty Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion. Gerard Manley Hopkins impression reality people Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing. Gerard Manley Hopkins weed nature beautiful And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs— Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings. Gerard Manley Hopkins faith spring morning My own heart let me more have pity on; let Gerard Manley Hopkins self mind heart Crystal sincerity hath found no shelter but in a fool's cap. Gerard Manley Hopkins shelter crystals fool O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Gerard Manley Hopkins mind men fall For myself I make no secret, I look forward with eager desire to seeing the matchless beauty of Christ's body in the heavenly light. Gerard Manley Hopkins light secret desire
