Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFor poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
-
-
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 -
On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Greatness is a spiritual condition.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
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.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
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 ARNOLD -
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
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.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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 -
France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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 -
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?
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
And we forget because we must and not because we will.
MATTHEW ARNOLD