Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNot deep the poet sees, but wide.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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