The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTo thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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