The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWaiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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