The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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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 bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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