Quotes by : Gerard Manley Hopkins

...O if we but knew what to do When we delve or hew— Hack and rack the growing green! Since country....

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness....

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.

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

What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce....

Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people,....

...Where we, even where we mean To mend her we end her, When we hew or delve:After-comers cannot guess....

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

No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.Comforter,....