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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThis strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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