Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
MATTHEW ARNOLDMen of culture are the true apostles of equality
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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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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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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