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
choices identity boundaries
Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices.
world grandeur
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
three glory truth-is
The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.
flames feet shining
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wearsman'ssmudgeand sharesman'ssmell: thesoil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
trout moles glory
Glory be to God for dappled things.
shelter fool crystals
Crystal sincerity hath found no shelter but in a fool's cap.
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.
greatness oil flames
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed.
creative quality males
The male quality is the creative gift.
determination self world
For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself.
hopkins
When we hew or delve: After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.
kill-me begets eunuchs
It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.
time rain roots
Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.