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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

“Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.”

Giving Self Giver

Book:Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Source: Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

“My own heart let me more have pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind, Charitable; not live this tormented mind With this tormented mind tormenting yet.”

Mind Heart Kind Self My Own Let Me Pity Hereafter Charitable

Book:Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Source: Poems of 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.”

Self Degrees All Things Compare Individualism Blank Being Myself Rebuff

Book:THE SERMONS AND DEVOTIONAL WRITINGS OF GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

Source: THE SERMONS AND DEVOTIONAL WRITINGS OF GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

“For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself.”

World Humans Has Beens Self Common Human Nature Higher Determination Distinctive Vastness

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

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

“I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.”

Men Self Higher Determined Individualism Distinctive

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

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

“Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.”

Self My Own Taste

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

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

“The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies.”

Self Brave Manners Indian Greek Gentleman Controlled Imposing Greek God

Book:Selected Prose

Source: Selected Prose

About the Author

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

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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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