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Matthew Arnold Quotes

«Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.»
«And see all sights from pole to pole, / And glance, and nod, and bustle by; / And never once possess our soul / Before we die.»
«It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.»
«Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.»
Author: Matthew Arnold (Critic, Poet) | About: Culture
«Wandering between two worlds, one dead,/ The other powerless to be born.»
«Strew on her roses, roses, / And never a spray of yew. / In quiet she reposes: / Ah! would that I did too!»
Author: Matthew Arnold (Critic, Poet) | Keywords: reposes, spray, strew, yew
«The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience.»
«The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.»
«With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.»
Author: Matthew Arnold (Critic, Poet) | Keywords: lipped
«Friends who set forth at our side, / Falter, are lost in the storm. / We, we only, are left!»

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