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A wanderer is man from his birth.
He was born in a ship
On the breast of the river of...
And sigh that one thing only has been lent
To youth and age in common - discontent.
And then he thinks he knows
The hills where his life rose,
And the sea where it...
Friends who set forth at our side,
Falter, are lost in the storm.
We, we only, are...
A criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic...
And see all sights from pole to pole,
And glance, and nod, and bustle by;
And never once possess our...
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies...
Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having...
He bears the seed of ruin in himself.
Source: 'Merope'
-- Matthew Arnold, (Dec...
Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them...
And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know,
Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure
Didst...
But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of...
Miracles do not happen.
Source: Literature and Dogma, Preface to edn. of 1883
--...
Let the long contention cease!
Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
Source: The...
Nor bring to see me cease to live,
Some doctor full of phrase and fame,
To shake his sapient head, and...
Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us,...
But each day brings its petty dust
Our soon-chok'd souls to fill,
And we forget because we must,
And not...
From whose floor the new-bathed stars
Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea.
The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I.
Source: Thyrsis, (Oxford) 60
--...
I am past thirty, and three parts iced over.
Source: Letter to A. H. Clough, 12 Feb...