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
Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair. — 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
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
Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
But the idea of science and systematic knowledge is wanting to our whole instruction alike, and not only to that of our… — 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
