Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes on Time
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The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened, to any degree heightened and unlike itself, but not...an obsolete one.
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It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.
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Hope had grown grey hairs, Hope had mourning on, Trenched with tears, carved with cares, Hope was twelve hours gone.
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How to keep-is there any any, is there none such, nowhere known some, bow or brooch or braid or brace, lace, latch or catch or key to keep Back beauty, keep it, beauty, beauty, beauty, ... from vanishing away?
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I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night!