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 ARNOLDA wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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