Matthew Arnold quotes - page 10

Nor bring to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give; The ill he cannot cure a name. (Matthew Arnold)
He spoke, and loosd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth. View quote
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this their poetry is conceived in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul. View quote
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common discontent. View quote
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Culture is acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. View quote
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There is no better motto which it culture can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, 'To make reason and the will of God prevail.' View quote
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry and we have Shakespeare. View quote
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This strange disease of modern life. View quote
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Who prop, thou ask'st in these bad days, my mind?' View quote
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Yes, thou art gone! and round me too the night In ever-nearing circle weaves her shade. I see her veil draw soft across the day, I feel her slowly chilling breath invade The cheek grown thin, the brown hair sprent with grey; I feel her finger light Laid pausefully upon life's headlong train; - The foot less prompt to meet the morning dew, The heart less bounding at emotion new, And hope, once crush'd, less quick to spring again. View quote
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