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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.

~Gerard Manley Hopkins

Topics: Beautiful Does Ear Eggs Hear Heavens Him Lightning Like Little Long Look Lovely Low Lush Nothing Shoot Sing Spring Strikes Through Timber Weeds Wheels

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What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.

~Gerard Manley Hopkins

Topics: Left Live Long Once Them Weeds Wet Wildness World Would

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The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

~Gerard Manley Hopkins

Topics: Admire Effect Make Masterpieces Me Otherwise Studying

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By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

~Gerard Manley Hopkins

Topics: Done Else English Gentleman Great Had Left Mankind Nothing Notion Race Service World Would

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

~Gerard Manley Hopkins

Topics: Apprehension Beauty Comparison Relation

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Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.

~Gerard Manley Hopkins

Topics: Begun Do You Know Doubt Happened Horrible Know Me Thing You

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The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

~Gerard Manley Hopkins

Topics: Age Current Language Poetical Should

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It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

~Gerard Manley Hopkins

Topics: Cannot Except Flying Happy Know Poetry Reach Road Royal Should Thing Time World

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I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

~Gerard Manley Hopkins

Topics: Always Any Confession Great He Heart Knew Like Living Man Mind More My Own Other Own Pleasant Scoundrel Than Very Walt

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Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.

~Gerard Manley Hopkins

Topics: Deep Deepest Impression Know People Reality Religion Speaking Very You

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: July 28th, 1844

Died: June 8th, 1889

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