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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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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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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