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 ARNOLDFor 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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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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