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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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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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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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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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