Matthew Arnold Quotes


51 quotes:

"And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night"
Author: Arnold Quotes Category: Struggle Quotes
"Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace."
Author: Arnold Quotes Category: Society Quotes
"And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, / Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure / Didst tread on earth unguessed at. Better so!"
Author: Arnold Quotes Category: Self Quotes
"Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things"
Author: Arnold Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes
"With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair."
Author: Arnold Quotes Category: Patience Quotes
"The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject"
Author: Arnold Quotes Category: Nature Quotes
"But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will."
Author: Arnold Quotes Category: Memory Quotes
"But the majestic river floated on, / Out of the mist and hum of that low land, / Into the frosty starlight, and there moved, / Rejoicing, through the hushed Chorasmian waste, / Under the solitary moon."
Author: Arnold Quotes Category: Land Quotes
"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."
Author: Arnold Quotes Category: Horses Quotes
"Nor bring to see me cease to live,/ Some doctor full of phrase and fame,/ To shake his sapient head, and give/ The ill he cannot cure a name."
Author: Arnold Quotes Category: Fame Quotes
"Eyes too expressive to be blue, / Too lovely to be grey."
Author: Arnold Quotes Category: Eyes Quotes
"Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing."
Author: Arnold Quotes Category: Expression Quotes
"Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery."
Author: Arnold Quotes Category: English Poet Quotes
"Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery."
Author: Arnold Quotes Category: English Poet Quotes
"Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it."
Author: Arnold Quotes Category: English Poet Quotes
"It is so small a think to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done."
Author: Arnold Quotes Category: English Poet Quotes
"France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme."
Author: Arnold Quotes Category: English Poet Quotes
"Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world."
Author: Arnold Quotes Category: English Poet Quotes
"And we forget because we must and not because we will."
Author: Arnold Quotes Category: English Poet Quotes
"To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive."
Author: Arnold Quotes Category: English Poet Quotes

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