"It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither."
― Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Poetry
― Gerard Manley Hopkins
More From 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."
- "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."
- "Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison."
More In Poetry
- "When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic."― Lance Burton
- "France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic."― Charles Baudelaire
- "Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts."― Robert Morgan