At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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