Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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