For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHistory – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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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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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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