Born on this date in 1844 was Gerard Manley Hopkins, a Jesuit poet. 10 quotes from him.
What you look at hard seems to look at you.
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
Glory be to God for dappled things.
It seems then that it is not the excellence of any two things (or more) in themselves, but those two things as viewed by the light of each other, that makes beauty.
What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop pail, give Him glory, too.
No one is ever so poor that he is not owner of the skies and stars and everything wild that is to be found on the earth.
Wisdom is early to despair.
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.
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.
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