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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWeep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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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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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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