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 ARNOLDLife is not having and getting, but being and becoming
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
-
-
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.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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 -
And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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 -
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.
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 -
Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
MATTHEW ARNOLD