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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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