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 What is all this juice and all this joy? Gerard Manley Hopkins girl sweet children It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget. Gerard Manley Hopkins eunuchs begets kill-me Life death all does end and each day dies with sleep. Gerard Manley Hopkins dying sleep death Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison. Gerard Manley Hopkins apprehension hopkins relation Our Lord Jesus Christ , my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants. Gerard Manley Hopkins hero world jesus I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. Gerard Manley Hopkins mind heart men It seems then that it is not the excellence of any two things (or more) in themselves, but those two things as viewed by the light of each other, that makes beauty. Gerard Manley Hopkins excellence light two The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Gerard Manley Hopkins oil flames greatness Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift molded ever and melted across skies? Gerard Manley Hopkins summer clouds wind I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night! Gerard Manley Hopkins dark insomnia night Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end? Gerard Manley Hopkins disappointment way art I awoke in the Midsummer not-to-call night, in the white and the Gerard Manley Hopkins white morning night The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies. Gerard Manley Hopkins greek brave self Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being. Gerard Manley Hopkins my-own taste self I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see. Gerard Manley Hopkins determined self men For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself. Gerard Manley Hopkins determination self world When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness. Gerard Manley Hopkins individualism degrees self When we hew or delve: Gerard Manley Hopkins hopkins Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist. Gerard Manley Hopkins communist horrible communism As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame Gerard Manley Hopkins flames nature fire
