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“I am surprised you should say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these would be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism.”

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Letter to his father, Manley Hopkins (16 October 1866)
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“He is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should. So then, my brethren, live.”

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The Principle or Foundation

“For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.”

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Letter to A.W.M. Baillie (10 September 1864)
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“My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled,
Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun,
All felled, felled, are all felled;
Of a fresh and following folded rank
Not spared, not one
That dandled a sandalled
Shadow that swam or sank
On meadow and river and wind-wandering weed-winding bank.”

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" Binsey Poplars http://www.bartleby.com/122/19.html", lines 1-8 Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“I consider my selfbeing … that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of ale or alum, more distinctive than the smell of walnutleaf or camphor, and is incommunicable by any means to another man.”

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Comments on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola

“That night, that year
Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God.”

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"Carrion Comfort", lines 13-14
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales,
All the air things wear that build this world of Wales.”

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" In the Valley of the Elwy http://www.bartleby.com/122/16.html", lines 9-10 Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.”

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Gerard Manley Hopkins Pied Beauty

"Pied Beauty", lines 7-11
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“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.”

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Letter to A.W.M. Baillie (22 May 1880)
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“Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.”

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Comments on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola

“Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?”

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" Spring and Fall http://www.bartleby.com/122/31.html", lines 1-2 Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“It kills me to be time’s eunuch and never to beget.”

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Letter to Robert Bridges (1 September 1885)
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“I say that we are wound
With mercy round and round
As if with air.”

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"The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe", lines 34-36
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“I think that the trivialness of life is, and personally to each one, ought to be seen to be, done away with by the Incarnation.”

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Letter to E.H. Coleridge (22 January 1866)
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“Our Lord Jesus Christ, my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.”

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Sermon (23 November 1879)
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“Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It ís the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.”

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"Spring and Fall", lines 12-15
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“I am gall, I am heartburn. God's most deep decree
Bitter would have me taste: my taste was me;
Bones built in me, flesh filled, blood brimmed the curse.
Selfyeast of spirit a dull dough sours. I see
The lost are like this, and their scourge to be
As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.”

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"I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day", lines 9-14
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“When, when, Peace, will you, Peace? I’ll not play hypocrite
To own my heart: I yield you do come sometimes; but
That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows
Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?”

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" Peace http://www.bartleby.com/122/22.html", lines 3-6 Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“The widow of an insight lost she lives, with aim
Now known and hand at work now never wrong.
Sweet fire the sire of muse, my soul needs this;
I want the one rapture of an inspiration.”

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" To R. B. http://www.bartleby.com/122/51.html", lines 7-10 Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise
Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour
Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier
Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies?”

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" Hurrahing in Harvest http://www.bartleby.com/122/14.html", lines 1-4 Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“The best ideal is the true
And other truth is none.
All glory be ascribed to
The holy Three in One.”

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" Summa http://www.bartleby.com/122/52.html", lines 1-4 Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“Ask of her, the mighty mother:
Her reply puts this other
Question: What is Spring?—
Growth in everything.”

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" The May Magnificat http://www.bartleby.com/122/18.html", stanza 4 Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“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.”

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Letter to Coventry Patmore, published in The Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges (1955), edited by C. C. Abbott, p. 263
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“"Hurrahing in Harvest", lines 5-6”

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Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.”

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"God's Grandeur", lines 5-8
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend
With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just.
Why do sinners’ ways prosper? and why must
Disappointment all I endeavour end?”

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" Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend http://www.bartleby.com/122/50.html", lines 1-4 Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“O if we but knew what we do
When we delve or hew—
Hack and rack the growing green!
Since country is so tender
To touch, her being so slender,
That, like this sleek and seeing ball
But a prick will make no eye at all,
Where we, even where we mean
To mend her we end her,
When we hew or delve:
After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.”

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"Binsey Poplars", stanza 2
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.”

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Comments on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola

“I caught this morning morning’s minion, king-
dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy!”

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" The Windhover http://www.bartleby.com/122/12.html", lines 1-5 Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“Take breath and read it with the ears, as I always wish to be read, and my verse becomes all right.”

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Letter to Robert Bridges (25 October 1879 )
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