Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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And 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!
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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.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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