The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBelow 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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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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