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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe 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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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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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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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