To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
-
-
Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
MATTHEW ARNOLD






