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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDI 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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The 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.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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