Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
MATTHEW ARNOLDMen of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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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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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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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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