Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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- Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.
- 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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