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“What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise?”

Quote by Matthew Arnold

Book:Dover Beach and Other Poems

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Dover Beach and Other Poems

This volume includes the classic poem 'Dover Beach,' known for its evocative imagery and reflective tone, along with additional poems that showcase the author's poetic style and thematic concerns. more

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Matthew Arnold was an English poet, born on December 24, 1822, and died on April 15, 1888. His poetry is known for its profound philosophy and admiration for nature. more

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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.”

World Ideas Facts Today Emotion Divine Illusion Unconscious Strongest Religion Today

Book:Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold

Source: Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold

“Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said!”

Said Bed Creeps

Author:Matthew Arnold

“One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a man's life of each day depends for its solidity and value upon whether he reads during that day, and far more still on what he reads during it.”

Thinking Men Stills Values Depends Each Day Solidity

Book:Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism

Source: Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism

“I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture.”

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Author:Matthew Arnold

“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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Book:Thoughts on Education: Chosen from the Writings of Matthew Arnold

Source: Thoughts on Education: Chosen from the Writings of Matthew Arnold

“On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; Burghers and dames, at summer's prime, Ride out to church from Chamberry, Dight with mantles gay, But else it is a lonely time Round the Church of Brou.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

“Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!”

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Author:Matthew Arnold

“Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?”

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“Oxus, forgetting the bright speed he had In his high mountain cradle in Pamere, A foiled circuitous wanderertill at last The longed-for dash of waves is heard, and wide His luminous home of waters opens, bright And tranquil, from whose floor the new-bathed stars Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea.”

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“Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.”

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Author:Matthew Arnold