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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

Matthew Arnold

I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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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 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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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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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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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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