Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNot deep the poet sees, but wide.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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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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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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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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