Famous quotes containing the words manley hopkins, manley and/or hopkins:
“Ten or twelve, only ten or twelve
Strokes of havoc Ășnselve
The sweet especial scene,
Rural scene, a rural scene,
Sweet especial rural scene.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (18441889)
“When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (18441889)
“I always knew in my heart Walt Whitmans mind to be more like my own than any other mans living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (18441889)