Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
MATTHEW ARNOLDGenius is mainly an affair of energy.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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