Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
MATTHEW ARNOLDNot deep the poet sees, but wide.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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