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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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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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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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