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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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Matthew Arnold's Popular Quotes

How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!

- Matthew Arnold

Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.

- Matthew Arnold

This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

- Matthew Arnold

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.

- Matthew Arnold

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

- Matthew Arnold

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

- Matthew Arnold

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

- Matthew Arnold

They... who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

- Matthew Arnold

Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.

- Matthew Arnold
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