For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNow the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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