Matthew Arnold

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

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

But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not read more

But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

The kings of modern thought are dumb.

The kings of modern thought are dumb.

If Paris that brief flight allow,
My humble tomb explore!
It bears: "Eternity, be thou
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If Paris that brief flight allow,
My humble tomb explore!
It bears: "Eternity, be thou
My refuge!" and no more.