Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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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.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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