Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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