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 ARNOLDYears hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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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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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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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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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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