Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
MATTHEW ARNOLDLet the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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