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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.

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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

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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.

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: December 24th, 1822

Died: April 15th, 1888

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