Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
MATTHEW ARNOLDFor poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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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 is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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 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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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