Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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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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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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