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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDLife is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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