Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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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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