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The quotations of

Gerard Manley Hopkins

English poet

1844–1889

7 quotes, most often on Nature and God.

Glory be to God for dappled things
Pied Beauty (1877)In context
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.
God’s Grandeur (1877)In context
- God
- Nature
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things
God’s Grandeur (1877)In context
- Nature
Márgarét, are you gríeving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Spring and Fall (1880)In context
- Children
- Nature
It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.
Spring and Fall (1880)In context
- Life & Death
My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird,⁠—the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!
The Windhover (1877)In context
- Animals
- Nature
Áh! ás the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you wíll weep and know why.
Spring and Fall (1880)In context
- Age
- Emotion

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