Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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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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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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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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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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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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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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