The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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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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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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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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