More - Matthew Arnold Quotes

Strew on her roses, roses, / And never a spray of yew. / In quiet she reposes: / Ah! would that I did too!

Matthew Arnold

 

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

Matthew Arnold

 English Poet

Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.

Matthew Arnold

 Energy

Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.

Matthew Arnold

 Energy

The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject

Matthew Arnold

 Nature

It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man

Matthew Arnold

 

And see all sights from pole to pole, / And glance, and nod, and bustle by; / And never once possess our soul / Before we die.

Matthew Arnold

 

Is it so small a thing / To have enjoyed the sun, / To have lived light in the spring, / To have loved, to have thought, to have done?

Matthew Arnold

 

Wandering between two worlds, one dead,/ The other powerless to be born.

Matthew Arnold

 

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things

Matthew Arnold

 Poetry