All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
MATTHEW ARNOLDStyle … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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