For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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