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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDPoetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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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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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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