Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

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The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

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The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

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Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.

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Summa

The best ideal is the true
And other truth is none.
All glory be ascribèd to
The holy Three in One.

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It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

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What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.

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By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

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Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.

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I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

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