Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins

"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."
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"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."
Gerard Manley Hopkins Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Complete Poems
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"Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion."
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"The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened."
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"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."
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"It is the blight man was born for. It is Margaret you mourn for."
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"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."
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"Where lies your landmark, seamark, or soul's star?"
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"The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One."
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"O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed."
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"Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east."
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"The world is charged with the grandeur of God."
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