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

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

Matthew Arnold
Solitude, Mind, Secrecy

Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.

Matthew Arnold
Sea, Solitude, Thrown
'A Wish' (1867)

Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.

Matthew Arnold
Blood, Two, Solitude
'Stanzas in Memory of the Author of "Obermann", November 1849' l. 93

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