Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
MATTHEW ARNOLDBald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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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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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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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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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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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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