"The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual community, the most sufficing passport to their favour must rest on the mixture of a little easily-intelligible portion of mawkish sentiment with an absolute negation of reason and knowledge."

Source : Thomas Love Peacock, Herbert Francis Brett Brett-Smith (1921). “Four Ages of Poetry: Shelley's Defence of Poetry. Browning's Essay on Shelley. Edited by H.F.B. Brett-Smith”

Thomas Love Peacock

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“Women's intuition is the result of millions of years of not thinking.”

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“We who have found Jesus and faith in God and love Him have found Heaven on Earth!”
“[Oedipa Maas] awoke at last to find herself getting laid.”
“Countries that innovate first get the new jobs, developing an economic edge over the C-free laggards that end up having to later import the technology.”
“Where is the angry machine of all of us? Why is God such a blurred magician? Why are you begging for your life if you believe those things? Prove to me that youâ€™re better than the rabbits we ate last night.”
“I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it.”
“At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.”
“One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.”

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