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What I do is me, for that I came. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

What you look at hard seems to look at you. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Our Lord Jesus Christ , my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

I have desired to go
Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
And a few lilies blow. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there! — Gerard Manley Hopkins

That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows
Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it? — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Why wouldst thou rude on me they wring-world right foot rock? — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems. — Alfonso A. Ossorio

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

And I have asked to be
Where no storms come,
Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,
And out of the swing of the sea. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Where lies your landmark, seamark, or soul's star? — Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; — Gerard Manley Hopkins

After-comers cannot guess the beauty been. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

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. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

The achieve of; the mastery of the thing! — Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

And when Peace here does house
He comes with work to do, he does not come to coo,
He comes to brood and sit. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

I say that we are wound With mercy round and round As if with air. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales,
All the air things wear that build this world of Wales. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

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. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Glory be to God for dappled things.
("Pied Beauty") — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Crystal sincerity hath found no shelter but in a fool's cap. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Glory be to God for dappled things. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

I CAUGHT this morning morning's minion, king- dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Fal- con, in his riding — Gerard Manley Hopkins

We have him [God] before our eyes, masked in the sacred Host — Gerard Manley Hopkins

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

No, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee — Gerard Manley Hopkins

All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

The male quality is the creative gift. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

It is the blight man was born for. It is Margaret you mourn for. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east. — Gerard Manley Hopkins