Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins SJwas an English poet, convert to Catholicism, and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. His manipulation of prosodyand his use of imagery established him after his death as an innovative writer of religious verse...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth28 July 1844
stars sky circles
Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!
shelter fool crystals
Crystal sincerity hath found no shelter but in a fool's cap.
horse prayer wall
It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smitting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping, scouring, everything gives God some glory if being in his grace you do it as your duty. To go to communion worthily gives God great glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a sloppail, give him glory too. He is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should.
air mercy rounds
I say that we are wound With mercy round and round As if with air.
spring blow lilies
I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow.
study admire masterpiece
The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.
genius originality poetic
Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.
air water lovely
Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales, All the air things wear that build this world of Wales.
sea swings dumb
And I have asked to be Where no storms come, Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, And out of the swing of the sea.
morning night white
I awoke in the Midsummer not-to-call night, in the white and the walk of the morning
mean giving glory
God?is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should.
mean men smell
I consider my selfbeing ... that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of ale or alum, more distinctive than the smell of walnutleaf or camphor, and is incommunicable by any means to another man.
christ poor patches
I am all at once what Christ is, ' since he was what I am, and This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, ' patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond.
mean giving glory
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, madefor--things that give and mean to give God glory.