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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAll the live murmur of a summer’s day.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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