For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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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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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?
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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