The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCome, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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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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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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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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