Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes on Art
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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 without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.
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A great work by an Englishman is like a great battle won by England. It is an unfading bay tree.
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Beauty ... is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.
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Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.
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The widow of an insight lost she lives, with aim Now known and hand at work now never wrong. Sweet fire the sire of muse, my soul needs this; I want the one rapture of an inspiration.