Quotes by : Gerard Manley Hopkins

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fallFrightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.

All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give....

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

...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....

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

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs....

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. So it must be on every original....

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

The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.