Quote by Goldwin Smith
As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if li

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper. – Goldwin Smith

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Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches. – Goldwin Smith

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architecture
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The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength. – Goldwin Smith

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strength
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The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party. – Goldwin Smith

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Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. – Lucille Clifton

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Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. – William Shenstone

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Poetry is what gets lost in translation. – Robert Frost

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I dont like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country. – Will Cuppy

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I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally. – W. C. Fields

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Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life — its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness — conjoin to dull our sensory faculties. – Susan Sontag

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