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Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. His manipulation of prosody (particularly his concept of sprung rhythm and use of imagery) established him as an innovative writer of verse. Two of his major themes were nature and religion.

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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.

Case, Difference, Greatness, Thinking, Two

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.

Done, Gentleman, Mankind, Race, Service

I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.

Convert, Hope, Literature, Poetry, Write, Writing

Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist.

Communism, Communist, Horrible, Manner, Say

No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

Blue, Fall, Plod, Plough, Shine, Shining

Any day, any minute we bless God for our being or for anything, for food, for sunlight, we do and are what we were meant for, madefor--things that give and mean to give God glory.

Food, Give, Giving, Glory, Mean, Praise

The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies.

Brave, Greek, Imposing, Self

I say that we are wound With mercy round and round As if with air.

Air, Mercy, Round, Rounds

Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.

Give, Giver, Giving, God, Self

When we hew or delve: After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.

Beauty, Delve, Guess, Hew, Hopkins

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

Apprehension, Comparison, Hopkins, Relation

Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.

Doubt, Happened, Horrible, Tennyson

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

Determined, Higher, Men, See, Self

Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end?

Art, Disappointment, Lord, Sir, Way, Ways

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.

Beat, Care, Ears, Music, Silence

The male quality is the creative gift.

Creative, Gift, Males, Quality

What is all this juice and all this joy?

Joy, Juice, Spring Poems

What is all this juice and all this joy? A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning In Eden garden. -Have, get, before it cloy, Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning, Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy, Most, O maid's child, thy choice and worthy the winning.

Children, Choice, Girl, Innocent, Strain, Sweet

Time has three dimensions and one positive pitch or direction. It is therefore not so much like any river or any sea as like the Sea of Galilee, which has the Jordan running through it and giving a current to the whole.

Galilee, Jordan, Running, Sea, Three, Time

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.

Flames, Gathers, Greatness, Oil, Shining

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