Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

Gerard Manley Hopkins — English Poet born on July 28, 1844, died on June 08, 1889

Reverend Father Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and a Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. His experimental explorations in prosody and his use of imagery established him as a daring innovator in a period of largely traditional verse... (wikipedia)

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

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.

Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

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