I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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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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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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