Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The world hath failed to impart the joy our youth forebodes; failed to fill up the void which in our breasts we… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Thought and science follow their own law of development; they are slowly elaborated in the growth and forward pressure of humanity, in… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
It does not try to reach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
And as long as the world lasts, all who want to make progress in righteousness will come to Israel for inspiration, as… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Only--but this is rare-- When a beloved hand is laid in ours, When, jaded with the rush and glare Of the interminable… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Now, the whole world hears Or shall hear,--surely shall hear, at the last, Though men delay, and doubt, and faint, and fail,--… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
“Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind.” — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too! — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
“Wandering between two worlds, one dead The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head Like these, on earth I… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
