15 Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes on Life

Gerard Manley Hopkins quotes on life

4. I think that the trivialness of life is, and personally to each one, ought to be seen to be, done away with by the Incarnation.

17. It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.

29. There lives the dearest freshness deep down things.

31. Nothing is so beautiful as Spring- When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

39. Ask of her, the mighty mother: Her reply puts this other Question: What is Spring?- Growth in everything.

43. Felix Randal the farrier, O he is dead then? my duty all ended, Who have watched his mould of man, big-boned and hardy-handsome Pining, pining, till time when reason rambled in it and some Fatal four disorders, fleshed there, all contended?

44. Poor Felix Randal; How far from then forethought of, all thy more boisterous years, When thou at the random grim forge, powerful amidst peers, Didst fettle for the great grey drayhorse his bright and battering sandal!

47. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It is the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.

51. Wild air, world-mothering air, Nestling me everywhere, That each eyelash or hair Girdles; goes home betwixt The fleeciest, frailest-fixed Snowflake; that's fairly mixed With, riddles, and is rife In every least thing's life.

54. Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist-slack they may be-these last strands of man In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.

58. Here! creep, Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.

65. Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

68. He is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should. So then, my brethren, live.

69. 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, made for-things that give and mean to give God glory.

71. When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.