Manley

Famous quotes containing the word manley:

    Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales,
    All the air things wear that build this world of Wales.
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

    I consider my selfbeing ... that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of ale or alum, more distinctive than the smell of walnutleaf or camphor, and is incommunicable by any means to another man.
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

    Sweet fire the sire of muse, my soul needs this;
    I want the one rapture of an inspiration.
    O then if in my lagging lines you miss
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)