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.
From Matthew Arnold
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
And we forget because we must and not because we will.
Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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