More from Gerard Manley Hopkins

  1. You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing, interest ceases also.... But…
  2. That is the great end of empires before God, to be Catholic and draw nations into their Catholicism. But our empire is less and less Christ…
  3. 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 se…
  4. A great work by an Englishman is like a great battle won by England. It is an unfading bay tree.
  5. 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 n…
  6. It seems then that it is not the excellence of any two things (or more) in themselves, but those two things as viewed by the light of each …
  7. I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls wi…
  8. Beauty ... is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

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