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“ The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. So it must be on every original artist to some degree, on me to a marked degree.(from notes on 'Heraclitean Fire') ”

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The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

~ Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins Christianity God Religion

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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Gerard Manley Hopkins God Nature

NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee;Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of manIn me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can;Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.

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Gerard Manley Hopkins Despair Hope

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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Gerard Manley Hopkins Nature Poetry