Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Jesuit priest. I see the world charged with hidden fire — in the bent shape of a falcon, in dappled light, in the force that makes each thing what it uniquely is. I have kept my poems in a drawer. Perhaps they will survive me.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

·1877·Wales, United Kingdom

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. / It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; / it gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil / Crushed.

"God's Grandeur"