Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Nothing is so beautiful as spring.”

“What I do is me: for that I came.”

“As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring.”

“For Christ plays in ten thousand places, Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his To the Father through the features of men's faces.”

“Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving?”

“All things counter, original, spare, strange.”

“I am gall, I am heartburn. God's most deep decree Bitter would have me taste: my taste was me.”

“Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil.”

“Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just.”

“The world is charged with the grandeur of God.”

“Glory be to God for dappled things.”

“And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things.”

“O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.”

“My own heart let me more have pity on.”

“I have desired to go Where springs not fail.”

“This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond.”