Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
Matthew Arnold
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Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God. -
Coercion may prevent many transgressions but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form. -
Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty. -
Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete? -
Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.
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