Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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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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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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