The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTruth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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