To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
MATTHEW ARNOLDPoetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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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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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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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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