I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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