Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

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

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

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.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

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.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

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.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

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.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins