Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
MATTHEW ARNOLDWith 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.
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 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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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?
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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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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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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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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