“You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing interest ceases also.... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest;... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest.” MeanDoeInterestInterestingChristianityGreaterMysteryCatholicCeaseCertaintyUncertainty Book:A Hopkins reader: selections Source: A Hopkins reader: selections
“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.” LooksLittlesLongDoeBeautifulHeavenNatureSpringLowsEarsStrikesLovelyWheelsEggsWeedMarijuanaLightningSpringtimeHopkinsTimberSpring PoemsLushApril And SpringSpring SeasonThink SpringThrush Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins
“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 lightnings to hear him sing; The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling. What is all this juice and all this joy? A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning In Eden garden.-Have, get, before it cloy.” LooksLittlesLongDoeEarthBeautifulJoyHeavenSweetSpringLowsFairsGardenEarsBlueStrikesLovelyWheelsEggsWeedRacingLightningBrushesStrainJuiceJuneRichnessLambsEdenFlingDescendingTimberSpring PoemsLushThrush Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Life death all does end and each day dies with sleep.” DoeEndsDeathDiesSleepDyingEach DayLife Death Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins
“What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is known, is widely known, the wider known the better, for it is by being known that it works, it influences, it does its duty, it does good. We must try, then, to be known, aim at it, take means to it. And this without puffing in the process or pride in the success.” TryingMeanLittlesDoeArtUseProcessKnownInfluenceProduceDutyPrideStandardsAimWorking ItWorks Of ArtEducate Book:Selected Letters Source: Selected Letters
“O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small Durance deal with that steep or deep.” MenMindMayLongDoeSoulFallDealsMountainSheerHungCliffsSteep Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins
