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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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Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power. – Matthew Arnold

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Christianity
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Matthew Arnold
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With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair. – Matthew Arnold

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Patience
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Matthew Arnold
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Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had Tiberius been a cat. – Matthew Arnold

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Cats
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If theres no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. – Robert Graves

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Poets are candid. They tell us not under an abstract, but an individual form, in which reality breathes, what humanity thinks in the most secret recesses of its mind. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy. – Diane Wakoski

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Poetry

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values. – A. R. Ammons

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Poetry

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Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. – Arnold Bennett

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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! – William James

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