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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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With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden and the heat
Of the long day, and wish twere done.
Not till the hours of light return
All we have built as we discern. – Matthew Arnold

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Retirement
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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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Matthew Arnold
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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into ones soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. – John Keats

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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. – Edgar Allan Poe

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Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me its the home of the extraordinary, the only home. – Philip Levine

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In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry. – Andrew Motion

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