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?
MATTHEW ARNOLDPoetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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 do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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