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
mind church accessories
I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these wd. be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism.
self degrees individualism
When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.
hopkins
When we hew or delve: After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.
solitude companion ecstasy
Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.
mean giving glory
Any day, any minute we bless God for our being or for anything, for food, for sunlight, we do and are what we were meant for, madefor--things that give and mean to give God glory.
mean interesting catholic
You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing interest ceases also.... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest;... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest.
men self determined
I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.
self taste my-own
Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.
sea swings dumb
And I have asked to be Where no storms come, Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, And out of the swing of the sea.
greatness oil flames
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed.
art disappointment way
Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end?
mean giving glory
God?is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should.
kill-me begets eunuchs
It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.
air water lovely
Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales, All the air things wear that build this world of Wales.