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 a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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