A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
MATTHEW ARNOLDStyle … 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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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
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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?
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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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.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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