For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
MATTHEW ARNOLDPhilistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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