List of Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Total Quotes 86
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.
Running Time Sea
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.
Thinking Done Life Is
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.
Criticism Nuggets Pearls
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.
Time Rain Roots
God?is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should.
Mean Giving Glory
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?
Art Disappointment Way
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.
Light Two Excellence
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.
Greatness Flames Oil
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.
Flying World Royal
I always knew in my heart walt whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living.
Heart Men Mind
Because the holy ghost over the bent world broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
Wings World Ghost
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.
Determination Self World
  • Born: July 28, 1844
  • Died: June 8, 1889
  • Occupation: Poet
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