Choose equality.
Matthew ArnoldIf there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
Matthew ArnoldAnd we forget because we must
Matthew ArnoldCulture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind.
Matthew ArnoldCome to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again!
For so the night will more than pay
The hopeless longings of the day.
Stichwörter: love reality dreams love-story
No, thou art come too late, Empedocles!
And the world hath the day, and must break thee,
Not thou the world. With men thou canst not live,
Their thoughts, their ways, their wishes, are not thine;
And being lonely thou art miserable,
For something has impair'd they spirit's strength,
And dried its self-sufficing font of joy.
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
Matthew ArnoldUp the still, glistening beaches,
Up the creeks we will hie,
Over banks of bright seaweed
The ebb-tide leaves dry.
We will gaze, from the sand-hills,
At the white, sleeping town;
At the church on the hill-side—
And then come back down.
Singing: "There dwells a loved one,
But cruel is she!
She left lonely for ever
The kings of the sea.
(from poem 'The Forsaken Merman')
Stichwörter: poetry poem mermaid mermaids victorian-era
Alas, is even Love too weak to unlock the heart and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one another what indeed they feel?
Matthew ArnoldStichwörter: love clarity lovers the-buried-life
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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