For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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