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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.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Age: 45 †
Born: 1844
Born: June 28
Died: 1889
Died: July 8
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London
England
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Impression
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Religion
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Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.
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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.
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The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.
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I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.
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I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night!
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The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed.
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I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow.
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What I do is me, for that I came.
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All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him.
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I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it.
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ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.
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Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.
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