Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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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.
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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.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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