The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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