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Gerard Manley Hopkins was an English poet known for his unique poetic style and profound religious themes. His work was not widely recognized during his lifetime but gained recognition after his death.

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Famous Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

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

Failing Fields Spring Blow Paradise Lilies Hail Hopkins

Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins

“When we hew or delve: After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.”

Hopkins

Book:Hopkins: The Mystic Poets

Source: Hopkins: The Mystic Poets

“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.”

Sea Havens Green Calm Storm Dumb Swings Hopkins

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 lightning to hear him sing.”

“Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.”

Long Beautiful Spring Lovely Wheels Weed Springtime Hopkins Timber Spring Poems Lush April And Spring Spring Season Think Spring Thrush

Book:Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Source: Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

“And the headbonny ash that sits over the burn. What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O Let them be left, wildness and wet: Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.”

World Long Left Nature Wilderness Weed Wet Ashes Wildness Hopkins Bereft Rivers And Water Inspiring Nature

Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.”

Relation Comparison Apprehension Hopkins

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)

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

Study Effects Admire Masterpiece Hopkins

Book:Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Source: Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Glory be to God for dappled things.”

Glory Trout Hopkins Moles Finches

Author: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!”

Looks Light Stars Nature Fire Air Sky Sitting Folks Circles Look Up Hopkins Citadels

Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins

About the Author

Born: July 28, 1844
Died: June 8, 1889
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 94

Books & Sources

Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)Related source material

Selected Poems of Gerard Manley HopkinsRelated source material

The Poems of Gerard Manley HopkinsRelated source material

God's GrandeurRelated source material

Hopkins: The Mystic PoetsRelated source material

Poems and proseRelated source material

Poems of Gerard Manley HopkinsRelated source material

Selected LettersRelated source material

A Hopkins reader: selectionsRelated source material

The note-books and papers of Gerard Manley HopkinsRelated source material

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