To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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