And each day brings it's pretty dust, Our soon-choked souls to fll And we forget because we must, And not because we will. - Matthew Arnold

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And each day brings it's pretty dust,
Our soon-choked souls to fll
And we forget because we must,
And not because we will.

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About Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold (December 24 1822 – April 15 1888) was an English poet, essayist and cultural critic. He also pursued a career as an inspector of schools.

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Originators like Matthew Arnold:
Lord Byron Samuel Taylor Coleridge T. S. Eliot Percy Bysshe Shelley Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Critical power...tends to make an intellectual situation of which the creative power can profitably avail itself. It tends to establish an order of ideas, if not absolutely true, yet true by comparison with that which it displaces; to make the best ideas prevail.
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