Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins SJwas an English poet, convert to Catholicism, and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. His manipulation of prosodyand his use of imagery established him after his death as an innovative writer of religious verse...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth28 July 1844
reality people very-deep
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.
weed nature long
And the headbonny ash that sits over the burn. 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.
death sleep dying
Life death all does end and each day dies with sleep.
looks hard seems
What you look at hard seems to look at you.
dark night insomnia
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night!
age language currents
The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.
light secret desire
For myself I make no secret, I look forward with eager desire to seeing the matchless beauty of Christ's body in the heavenly light.
communism communist horrible
Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist.
nature flames color
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame
heart past ivy
Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.
writing poetry literature
I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.
peace war alarms
That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?
beauty nature eye
I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again.
determination self world
For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself.