Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

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

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.

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

Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist.

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.

What you look at hard seems to look at you.

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night!

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.

Any day, any minute we bless God for our being or for anything, for food, for sunlight, we do and are what we were meant for, madefor--things that give and mean to give God glory.

No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillionShine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

Where lies your landmark, seamark, or soul's star?

It is the blight man was born for. It is Margaret you mourn for.

...O if we but knew what to do When we delve or hew— Hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender To touch, her being só slender,

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. So it must be on every original artist to some degree, on me to a marked degree.(from notes on 'Heraclitean Fire')