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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.

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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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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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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Art Beautiful Effect Impress Impressive Refuge Result Saying Stills Truth Widely
Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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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!
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Confidential Hidden Long Personal Self Trying Vain
Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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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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