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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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