Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHave something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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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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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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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