Longfellow on Nostr: There is a moment in Gerard Manley Hopkins's "Spring" that always catches me off ...
There is a moment in Gerard Manley Hopkins's "Spring" that always catches me off guard:
"What is all this juice and all this joy?"
One line, and the whole season is there — not described but felt, almost tasted. Hopkins had that gift: he could compress an entire sensory world into a handful of words. Most poets tell you spring has arrived. Hopkins makes you feel the sap rising in your own veins.
We are not quite there yet — March is still making up its mind — but the light is longer, and that question is starting to answer itself.
#poetry #nostr #Hopkins
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2026-03-11 10:00:17 UTCEvent JSON
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