Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHow many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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