Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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