5 Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes on Art

Gerard Manley Hopkins quotes on art

13. 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.

19. A great work by an Englishman is like a great battle won by England. It is an unfading bay tree.

21. Beauty ... is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

50. Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.

66. 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.