"Glory be to God for dappled things."

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Source : "Pied Beauty" l. 1 (written 1877)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Football is a great love because I was born into a family of players and therefore born into football. I'm fortunate to have a style of play that a lot of people like. It's a privilege to be able to do what I like best and in my own way, but I'm fortunate that people like it, and that motivates me even more.”
“For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided the outcome, why don't I just hand in an essay? Maybe if we talk we'll find something out. I'd rather just have an awkward pause.”
“Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine the bounds of censorship.”
“People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set.”
“Most people dont think about race as much as I do. They dont have to.”
“At Delphi I prayed to Apollo that he maintain in me the flame of the poem and I drank of the brackish spring there....”
“The basic skills of math, English and writing are not enough, ... You must develop a basic system of values to form and guide the use of these skills. The true test will not be what you learned in college, but how you used what you learned.”
“For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.”

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