Quotes by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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• Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

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• Towery city and branching between towers; Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmed, lark-charmed, rook-racked, river-rounded.

  ― Gerard Manley Hopkins
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• What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left. O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• cuckoo-echoing
• river-rounded
• lark-charmed
• rook-racked
• wilderness
• between

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