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 ARNOLDIt is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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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.
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and 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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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