A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
MATTHEW ARNOLDPoetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
-
-
Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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 -
It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
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.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
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 -
If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
MATTHEW ARNOLD






