Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

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

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

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.

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

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.

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

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