The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

Gerard Manley Hopkins
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  3. When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world. - George Steiner
  4. Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
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More Quotes By Gerard Manley Hopkins
  1. The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
  2. All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him.
  3. NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist–slack they may be–these last strands of man In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.
  4. What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
  5. Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.
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