Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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