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I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

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I think that the trivialness of life is, and personally to each one, ought to be seen to be, done away with by the Incarnation.

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.

All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.

Over again I feel thy finger and find thee.

Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.

Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

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