The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFor poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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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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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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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.
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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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