Famous quotes containing the words manley hopkins, manley and/or hopkins:
“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.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
“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!”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
“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 (1844–1889)