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As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame
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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I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again.
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Life death all does end and each day dies with sleep.
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For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.
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Birds buildbut not I build no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.
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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 wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night!
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Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.
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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.
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Our Lord Jesus Christ , my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.
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Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.
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What I do is me, for that I came.
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When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.
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Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.
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Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.
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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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Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.
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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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Crystal sincerity hath found no shelter but in a fool's cap.
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And the headbonny ash that sits over the burn. 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.
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To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop pail, give Him glory, too. God is so great that all things give Him glory if you mean that they should.
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