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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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The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. – Matthew Arnold

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Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. – Matthew Arnold

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America
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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishmans heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes. – Matthew Arnold

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If the author had said “Let us put on appropriate galoshes,” there could, of course, have been no poem. – Author Unknown

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Poetry

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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Poetry

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. – Mark Strand

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Poetry

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. – Eli Khamarov, The Shadow Zone

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Poetry

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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power. – Seneca

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He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. – Thomas Paine

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It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire peoples imagination, and all of them were very difficult women. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

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One forgives to the degree that one loves. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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