Happy birthday, Gerard Manley Hopkins! Here are some quotes from his writing.
“What you look hard at seems to look hard at you.”
“O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne’er hung there. Nor does long our small
Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,
Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.”
“Beauty…is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.”