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 ARNOLDI 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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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.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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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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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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