And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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For 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.
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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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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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