Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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