Matthew Arnold Quotes About Art
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Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay ... More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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