“What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.”
Quotes by Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Pied Beauty— " Glory be to God for dappled things-- For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings; Landscape plotted and pieced--fold, fallow, and plough; And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim. 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.”
“The world is charged with the grandeur of God.”
Gerard Manley HopkinsGerard Manley Hopkins was an English poet and Jesuit priest whose innovative approach to poetry has earned him a prominent place in the English literary canon. Known for his unique prosody, particular...