Journalism is literature in a hurry.
MATTHEW ARNOLDUse your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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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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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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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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