I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night!
Gerard Manley HopkinsWhen I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.
Gerard Manley HopkinsThe Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.
Gerard Manley HopkinsFor human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself.
Gerard Manley Hopkins