Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
MATTHEW ARNOLDI am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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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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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 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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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