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"The buried stream"

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"A man becomes aware of his life's flow / And hears its winding murmur..."

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From "The Buried Life", Matthew Arnold, 1852

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#MatthewArnold (1822), Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837), Michael Curtiz (1886), Howard Hughes (1905), Ava Gardner (1922), George Patton IV (1923), Robert Joffrey (1930), Anthony Fauci (1940), Paul Tagliabue (1940), Brenda Howard (1946) & Hamid Karzai (1957) were born #OnThisDay...

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"Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming."

Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/matthe...

#MatthewArnold, English poet and critic ("Dover Beach"), was #BOTD 24 December 1822. #Poetry #Literature

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“Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style.”
--Attributed to Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
Appears, without a cited source, in G. W. E. Russell’s “Collections and Recollections” (published 1898)

#writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #MatthewArnold

Victorian poet and critic Matthew Arnold had a simple but sharp answer to the big question of prose style: say something worth saying, and make it clear. In a remark captured by G. W. E. Russell in 1898, Arnold pushed back against showy rhetoric and fancy ornamentation. For him, style wasn’t about dazzling phrases or clever flourishes. It was about clarity of thought and direct communication, getting ideas into readers’ minds without obfuscation or excess words.

That line has echoed for over a century because it captures a central truth of good writing: substance and clarity beat cleverness without meaning. Writers, speakers, and creators of all stripes still quote it because it reminds us that style serves thought, not the other way around. If your point isn’t worth making, no amount of fancy language will make it matter. And if it is worth making, saying it clearly makes it accessible to everyone you want to reach.

“Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style.” --Attributed to Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) Appears, without a cited source, in G. W. E. Russell’s “Collections and Recollections” (published 1898) #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #MatthewArnold Victorian poet and critic Matthew Arnold had a simple but sharp answer to the big question of prose style: say something worth saying, and make it clear. In a remark captured by G. W. E. Russell in 1898, Arnold pushed back against showy rhetoric and fancy ornamentation. For him, style wasn’t about dazzling phrases or clever flourishes. It was about clarity of thought and direct communication, getting ideas into readers’ minds without obfuscation or excess words. That line has echoed for over a century because it captures a central truth of good writing: substance and clarity beat cleverness without meaning. Writers, speakers, and creators of all stripes still quote it because it reminds us that style serves thought, not the other way around. If your point isn’t worth making, no amount of fancy language will make it matter. And if it is worth making, saying it clearly makes it accessible to everyone you want to reach.

“Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style.”
--Attributed to Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
Appears, without a cited source, in G. W. E. Russell’s “Collections and Recollections” (published 1898)

#life #authors #coffee #write #books #quotes #MatthewArnold

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Wieambilla police shooting not ‘terrorism’ but driven by Train family’s shared ‘delusions’, Queensland coroner finds Coroner’s report into deaths of Rachel McCrow, Matthew Arnold and Alan Dare released following five-day inquest

#Wieambilla police shooting not ‘ #terrorism’ but driven by Train family’s shared ‘delusions’, QLD coroner finds
Coroner’s report into deaths of #RachelMcCrow, #MatthewArnold & #AlanDare released following five-day inquest

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

#AUSPOL #QLDpol #GarethTrain

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Today in Bookish and Literary History, November 3 Today in Bookish and Literary History, November 3

Today in Bookish and Literary History, November 3

🔗 Check my blog for more details on the titles, authors, synopses, and the list of awards:

#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #November3 #MatthewArnold #EugeneONeill #IsabelAllende #JohnIrving #StephenKing #DavidSedaris #booksky

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Today in Bookish and Literary History, November 3

#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #November3 #MatthewArnold #EugeneONeill #IsabelAllende #JohnIrving #StephenKing #DavidSedaris #booksky

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#icknieldwaymorris #ferrymaninn #bablockhythe
“Returning home on summer-nights, have met
Crossing the stripling Thames at Bab-lock-hithe……..”
The Scholar Gypsy - Matthew Arnold ( 1822-1888)
#river #thames #dance #folkmusic #folksong #tradition #poem #matthewarnold #poetry

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Keir on Substack I haven’t read Ruth Pitman’s article (is there anywhere I can read it for free?). But far from being a “disintegrating sonnet”, Dover Beach expands into a huge enfolding double sonnet.  Stanza 1 is a...

Dover Beach as an expansive overengagement with form, rather than a retreat from it. #MatthewArnold #DoverBeach substack.com/@snapdragons...

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Soon will the high Midsummer pomps come on,
Soon will the musk carnations break and swell,
Soon shall we have gold-dusted snapdragon,
Sweet-William with his homely cottage-smell,
And stocks in fragrant blow;
Roses that down the alleys shine afar,
And open, jasmine-muffled lattices,
And groups under the dreaming garden-trees,
And the full moon, and the white evening-star.

Soon will the high Midsummer pomps come on, Soon will the musk carnations break and swell, Soon shall we have gold-dusted snapdragon, Sweet-William with his homely cottage-smell, And stocks in fragrant blow; Roses that down the alleys shine afar, And open, jasmine-muffled lattices, And groups under the dreaming garden-trees, And the full moon, and the white evening-star.

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#Poem
#BlueskyPoetry
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Soon will the high Midsummer pomps come on by Matthew Arnold

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"Ve çelik gibi bir iradenin
yolunda tereddütsüz yürüdüm
kuşku ve korkuya düşmeksizin
öyle birşey öğrendimki bu dünyada
Birgün sende öğreneceksin
o iradeye, o güce pek az rastlansada
Asla, asla boy ölçüşemez
aşkla."
#MatthewArnold

İngiliz şair ve yazarın aramızdan ayrılışının 137. yılında saygıyla..

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“Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.”

Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/matthe...

✒️ #MatthewArnold, English poet, #DOTD 15 April 1888. #Poetry #Literature

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Definition of matthew arnold matthew arnold English poet and literary critic (1822-1888)nnn #definition #meaning #matthew arnold #ielts #learnenglish #education #british

matthew arnold
- English poet and literary critic (1822-1888)

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Matthew Arnold on life

Matthew Arnold on life

#MatthewArnold (1822), Peter Cornelius (1824), Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837), Michael Curtiz (1886), Howard Hughes (1905), Ava Gardner (1922), George Patton IV (1923), Teresa Stich-Randall (1927), Anthony Fauci (1940) & Hamid Karzai (1957) were born #OnThisDay...

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"Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming."

Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/matthe...

#MatthewArnold, English poet and critic ("Dover Beach"), was #BOTD 24 December 1822. #Poetry #Literature

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“And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.”

#MatthewArnold #DoverBeach

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