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 ARNOLDCulture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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