For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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