Famous quotes containing the words manley hopkins, manley and/or hopkins:
“Wild air, world-mothering air,
Nestling me everywhere,
That each eyelash or hair
Girdles; goes home betwixt
The fleeciest, frailest-fixed
Snowflake; that’s fairly mixed
With, riddles, and is rife
In every least thing’s life.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
“This piece-bright paling shuts the spouse
Christ home, Christ and his mother and all his hallows.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
“Look at the stars! look, look up the skies!
O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)