Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!/ O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! / The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there! - Gerard Manley Hopkins

I see / The lost are like this, and their scourge to be / As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse. - Gerard Manley Hopkins

The fine delight that fathers thought; the strong / Spur, live and lancing like the blowpipe flame, / Breathes once and, quenchud faster than it came, / Leaves yet the mind a mother of immortal song. - Gerard Manley Hopkins