The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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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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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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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.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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