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> [Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of the great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/indeed-there-can-be-no-more-useful-help-for-discovering-what-poetry/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

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## More by Matthew Arnold

> [Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/culture-looks-beyond-machinery-culture-hates-hatred-culture-has-one/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

> [We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/we-must-hold-fast-to-the-austere-but-true-doctrine-as-to-what-really/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

> [“Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/culture-is-the-endeavour-to-know-the-best-and-to-make-this-knowledge/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

> [The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/the-difference-between-genuine-poetry-and-the-poetry-of-dryden-pope/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

> [Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/culture-the-acquainting-ourselves-with-the-best-that-has-been-known/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

> [Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/strew-on-her-roses-roses-and-never-a-spray-of-yew-in-quiet-she/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

> [Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/nature-with-equal-mind-sees-all-her-sons-at-play-sees-man-control-the/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

> [Six years-six little years-six drops of time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/six-years-six-little-years-six-drops-of-time/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

> [Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/let-the-long-contention-cease-geese-are-swans-and-swans-are-geese/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

> [It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/it-is-almost-impossible-to-exaggerate-the-proneness-of-the-human-mind/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

> [Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/religion-is-ethics-heightened-enkindled-lit-up-by-feeling/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

> [Genius is mainly an affair of energy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/genius-is-mainly-an-affair-of-energy/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

> [Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/culture-is-both-an-intellectual-phenomenon-and-a-moral-one/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

> [English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/english-civilization-the-humanizing-the-bringing-into-one-harmonious/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

> [“Wandering between two worlds, one dead The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head Like these, on earth I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/wandering-between-two-worlds-one-dead-the-other-powerless-to-be-born/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

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