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 ARNOLDOur inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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