And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
MATTHEW ARNOLDHave something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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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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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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