English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor clearly will'd,… — 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
Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one… — 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
But thou, my son, study to make prevail One colour in thy life, the hue of truth. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd not in… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively;… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims. — 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 Image
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 Image
“Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind.” — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
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 Image
