Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFor 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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