Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNot deep the poet sees, but wide.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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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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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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