For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
MATTHEW ARNOLDArt still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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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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It 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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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