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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNot deep the poet sees, but wide.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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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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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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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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