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 ARNOLDOur inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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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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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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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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