Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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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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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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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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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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