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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Matthew Arnold
Writing, Secret, Famous Writers
Quoted in G.W. E. Russell, Collections and Recollections (1898)

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

Matthew Arnold
Writing, Men, Two
Essays in Criticism First Series, "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" (1865)

Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.

Matthew Arnold
Nature, Writing, Hands
Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.771, Delphi Classics

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