Greatness is a spiritual condition.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFor 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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