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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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Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church. – Goldwin Smith

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architecture
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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 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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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. – Wilfred Owen

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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. – Keith Haring

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