Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

"The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened."
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
(Related: Age, Language)

"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
(Related: Religion, People, Impression, Deep, Reality)

"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
(Related: Nothing, Spring)

"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
(Related: Time, Poetry, Flying, Road, World)

"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."
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
(Related: Heart, Confession, Living, Man, Mind)

"Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson."
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
(Related: Doubt)

"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
(Related: English, Gentleman, Mankind, Nothing, Race, Service, World)

"Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison."
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
(Related: Beauty)

"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."
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
(Related: World)