Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNot deep the poet sees, but wide.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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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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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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