Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHave something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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For 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.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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