Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe 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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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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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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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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