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Gerard Manley Hopkins [1844-1889] English
Rank: 104
Poet (with poems)

Bipolar disorder, Christian, Free verse, Modernism, Parnassianism, Sonnet, Victorian


Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ was an English poet, convert to Catholicism, and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets.

Beauty, Great, Nature, Poetry, Religion



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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. Great
101
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.
102
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.
103
Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison. Beauty
104
Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.
105
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. Nature
106
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
107
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. Poetry
108
The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.
109
The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.
110

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