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.
Gerard Manley HopkinsRead
Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Religion profoundly influences personal identity and interpersonal connections.
In this quote, Gerard Manley Hopkins expresses the significant impact that religion has on human interactions and relationships. He suggests that the essence of people's identities is often intertwined with their religious beliefs, and this understanding shapes his perception of their character and values, indicating that religion is a deep-seated aspect of life that transcends superficial judgments.
Themes
ReligionIdentityBeliefPeopleImpression
In practice
Example use cases
A speaker at a conference on identity might use this quote to illustrate the role of religion in shaping personal connections.
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All quotes →And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs— Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
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Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!
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Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.
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Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
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