Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBe neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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