Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

Quote by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left...

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left...

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

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

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left,...

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left,...

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world...

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world...

Glory be to God for dappled things for skies of couple-color as a brinded cow;...

Glory be to God for dappled things for skies of couple-color as a brinded cow;...

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own...

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own...

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely...

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely...

Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have...

Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have...

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

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

It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.

It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.

There is absolutely nothing to be said in favour of growing old. There ought to...

There is absolutely nothing to be said in favour of growing old. There ought to...

Midlife crisis is that moment when you realize your children and your clothes are about...

Midlife crisis is that moment when you realize your children and your clothes are about...

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to...

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to...

The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of...

The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of...

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would...

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would...

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall...

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall...

The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of...

The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of...

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.