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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 hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.”

Should Poet Criticism Strings Rough Diamond Pearls Old Fashioned Nuggets

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“God?is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should.”

Ifs Giving Should Mean Glory All Things

Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins

“To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop pail, give Him glory, too. God is so great that all things give Him glory if you mean that they should.”

Ifs Men Giving Should Mean Hands Prayer Glory All Things Lifts

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“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.”

Knows World Should Flying Royal Happy Things

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

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

“But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that 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.”

Men Should Mind Wells Heart May Said My Own My Heart Pleasant Confession Scoundrels Walt

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“When a man is in God's grace and free from mortal sin, then everything that he does, so long as there is no sin in it, gives God glory and what does not give him glory has some, however little, sin in it. It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smiting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping, scouring, everything gives God some glory if being in his grace you do it as your duty.”

Ifs Men Giving Should Mean Hands Prayer Grace Duty Wall Glory All Things Horse Driving Communion Beam Sweeping Anvils

Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins

“The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.”

Should Age Language Currents

Book:Selections; chosen and edited by Graham Storey

Source: Selections; chosen and edited by Graham Storey

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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