The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived… — 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
The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised… — 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
“Up the still, glistening beaches, Up the creeks we will hie, Over banks of bright seaweed The ebb-tide leaves dry. We will… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“The word 'God' is used in most cases as by no means a term of science or exact knowledge, but a term… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can. — 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
Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can… — 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
Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The interpretations of science do not give us this intimate sense of objects as the interpretations of poetry give it; they appeal… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. — 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
For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized… — 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
