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Poetry Quotes by Matthew Arnold
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
- Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.
- Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may…
- The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry
- Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
- The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore,…
- The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
- Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various,…
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
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- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery
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- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden