Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
MATTHEW ARNOLDLife is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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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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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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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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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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