And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
MATTHEW ARNOLDPoetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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