The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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