Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
MATTHEW ARNOLDI do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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