Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. G
  4. Gerard Manley Hopkins
  5. It kills me to be times eunuch and never to beget.

It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.

Gerard Manley Hopkins
Kill Me, Begets, Eunuchs
1885 Letter to Robert Bridges, 1 Sep. Collected in C C Abbott (ed) The Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Robert Bridges (1935).
It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.