Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
-
-
Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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 -
Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
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 -
To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Greatness is a spiritual condition.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
MATTHEW ARNOLD