The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. Matthew Arnold English Poet More Matthew Arnold Quotes 2
Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again. Matthew Arnold English Poet More Matthew Arnold Quotes 1
Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill. Matthew Arnold English Poet More Matthew Arnold Quotes 0
And see all sights from pole to pole, / And glance, and nod, and bustle by; / And never once possess our soul / Before we die. Matthew Arnold English Poet More Matthew Arnold Quotes 0
Wandering between two worlds, one dead,/ The other powerless to be born. Matthew Arnold English Poet More Matthew Arnold Quotes 0
The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience. Matthew Arnold English Poet More Matthew Arnold Quotes 0
The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul. Matthew Arnold English Poet More Matthew Arnold Quotes 0
With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair. Matthew Arnold English Poet More Matthew Arnold Quotes 0
Friends who set forth at our side, / Falter, are lost in the storm. / We, we only, are left! Matthew Arnold English Poet More Matthew Arnold Quotes 0
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion. Matthew Arnold English Poet More Matthew Arnold Quotes 0
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. Matthew Arnold English Poet More Matthew Arnold Quotes 0
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. Matthew Arnold English Poet More Matthew Arnold Quotes 0
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. Matthew Arnold English Poet More Matthew Arnold Quotes 0
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. Matthew Arnold English Poet More Matthew Arnold Quotes 0
Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. Matthew Arnold English Poet More Matthew Arnold Quotes 0
Is it so small a thing / To have enjoyed the sun, / To have lived light in the spring, / To have loved, to have thought, to have done? Matthew Arnold English Poet More Matthew Arnold Quotes 0
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 Arnold English Poet More Matthew Arnold Quotes 0
Eyes too expressive to be blue, / Too lovely to be grey. Matthew Arnold English Poet More Matthew Arnold Quotes 0
(Poetry) a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. Matthew Arnold English Poet More Matthew Arnold Quotes 0
But the majestic river floated on, / Out of the mist and hum of that low land, / Into the frosty starlight, and there moved, / Rejoicing, through the hushed Chorasmian waste, / Under the solitary moon. Matthew Arnold English Poet More Matthew Arnold Quotes 0