Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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