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Good poetry does undoubtedly ...

Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth in alliance together, it suggests, however indirectly, high and noble principles of action, and it inspires the emotion so helpful in making principles operative.

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Tis not to see the world As f...

Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.

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The interpretations of scienc...

The interpretations of science do not give us this intimate sense of objects as the interpretations of poetry give it; they appeal to a limited faculty, and not to the whole man. It is not Linnaeus or Cavendish or Cuvier who gives us the true sense of animals, or water, or plants, who seizes their secret for us, who makes us participate in their life; it is Shakspeare [sic] … Wordsworth … Keats … Chateaubriand … Senancour.

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Whoever sets himself to see t...

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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Years hence, perhaps, may daw...

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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Was Christ a man like us?-Ah!...

Was Christ a man like us?-Ah! let us try If we then, too, can be such men as he!

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Nature herself seems, I say, ...

Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.

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For what wears out the life o...

For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, Exhaust the energy of strongest souls And numb the elastic powers.

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Nothing could moderate, in th...

Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.

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What is it to grow old? Is it...

What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes; but not this alone.

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Let the long contention cease...

Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.

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One has often wondered whethe...

One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class.

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The bloom is gone, and with t...

The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I.

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Weary of myself, and sick of ...

Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea.

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Calm's not life's crown, thou...

Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.

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Like driftwood spares which m...

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

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Hither and thither spins The ...

Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole.

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The best poetry will be found...

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

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Youth dreams a bliss on this ...

Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears a voice within it tell: Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. 'Tis all perhaps which man acquires, But 'tis not what our youth desires.

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It is not in the outward and ...

It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much; it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics.

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