Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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