Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.Matthew Arnold
The will is free Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful The seeds of godlike power are in us still Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will.
Matthew Arnold
Deep weariness and sated lust
Made human life a hell.
Matthew Arnold
The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.
Matthew Arnold
Which never was the friend of one,
Nor promised love it could not give,
But lit for all its generous sun,
And lived itself, and made us live.
Matthew Arnold
Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
Matthew Arnold
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