For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry and we have Shakespeare.Matthew Arnold
To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.
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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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Deep weariness and sated lust
Made human life a hell.
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The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject
Matthew Arnold
Was Christ a man like us Ah let us try If we then, too, can be such men as he.
Matthew Arnold
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