Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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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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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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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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