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"It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature."
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"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
"Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose."
"Greatness is achieved when you fulfil your purpose by doing what you were born to do."
"Do something very praiseworthy in your youth or in your middle age so that you can spend all your time talking about it in your old age!"
"Success is not about impressing and pleasing everyone, but setting your own goals, and achieving them in your own time."
"I am successful because I did not waste time bothering about what others were doing but focussed on what I was doing."
"Mastery does not exist."
"A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof."
"Stand tall on the summit after a tedious climb. Take in the remarkable scenery and the exhilaration of accomplishment. But don't pause for long, there are greater mountains to climb while you still possess the drive and capacity to do so."
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"The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music."
"Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events."
"Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them."
"So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse."
"Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way."
"There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so."
"The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely."
"We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible."
"A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being."
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