The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
MATTHEW ARNOLDKnow, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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