Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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