“Nothing is so beautiful as spring.” — Gerard Manley Hopkins | V2Melody

“Nothing is so beautiful as spring.”

A brief expression of wonder at the renewing beauty of the natural world · Journal

Gerard Manley Hopkins

About Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins

28 July 1844–8 June 1889

Gerard Manley Hopkins was born on July 28, 1844, in Stratford, Essex, which has since been absorbed into the bustling expanse of Greater London. He entered the world as the eldest of what would become nine children in a prosperous, artistic, and devout High Church Anglican family. His father, Manley Hopkins, was a…

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“What you look hard at seems to look hard at you, whether you look at a thing or a person.”

Reflecting on the intense, reciprocal attention involved in observing the world · Journal

Nature
Truth

“The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.”

Arguing that poetry should intensify living speech rather than retreat into an artificial idiom · Letter to Robert Bridges

Art
Poetry

“Poetry is in fact speech only employed to carry the meaning and emotion of the poet.”

Presenting poetry as heightened communication shaped by both sense and feeling · Letter to Robert Bridges

Poetry
Truth