Gerard Manley Hopkins

"Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion."

"Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson."

"Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed howev…"

"I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again."

"It kills me to be time’s eunuch and never to beget."

"I am surprised you should say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these would be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the a…"

"I consider my selfbeing … that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of ale or alum, more distinctive than the smell of walnutleaf or camphor, …"

"Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain."