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.
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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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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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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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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