The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFor the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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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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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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