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 ARNOLDFrance, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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