The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of godlike power are in us still; Gods… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before… — 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… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
And each day brings it's pretty dust, Our soon-choked souls to fll And we forget because we must, And not because we… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man… — 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
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
Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain! — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
When Byron's eyes were shut in death, We bow'd our head and held our breath. He taught us little; but our soul… — 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 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
