Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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