Quote by Matthew Arnold
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effect

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. – Matthew Arnold

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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances. – Matthew Arnold

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People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Have something to say and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style. – Matthew Arnold

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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. – Matthew Arnold

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Well, if this is poetry, Im certainly never going to write any myself. – James Schuyler

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Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing. – James Tate

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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence. – Laura Marling

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It is the hour to be drunken! Be drunken, if you would not be martyred slaves of Time; be drunken continually! With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. – Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), “Be Drunken,” translated from French by Arthur

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