Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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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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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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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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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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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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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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