Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!
Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
Greatness is a spiritual condition.
One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay ... More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us.
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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