Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTo have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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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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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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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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