The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOthers abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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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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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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