Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAt the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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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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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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