Gerard Manley Hopkins quotes - Page : 2

" The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened, to any degree heightened and unlike itself, but not...an obsolete one. " # Language # Age and Aging # Poetry and Poets

" Our Lord Jesus Christ, my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants. " # Heroes and Heroism # Christians and Christianity # Jesus Christ

" For myself I make no secret, I look forward with eager desire to seeing the matchless beauty of Christ’s body in the heavenly light. " # Beauty # Desire # Love

" 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 # Reality # Love

" I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds. " # Critics and Criticism # Love # Marriage

" 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. " # Confession # Heart # Wealth

" 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. " # Gentlemen # Service # Humankind

" You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing, interest ceases also.... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest;... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest. " # Catholicism # Arts and Artists # Certainty

" It kills me to be time’s eunuch and never to beget. " # Consequences

" That is the great end of empires before God, to be Catholic and draw nations into their Catholicism. But our empire is less and less Christian as it grows. " # Catholicism # Christians and Christianity # Empire