Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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