Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt 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
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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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.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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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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