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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFor this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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