Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming Matthew Arnold More Quotes by Matthew Arnold More Quotes From Matthew Arnold The word "God" is used in most cases as by no means a term of science or exact knowledge, but a term of poetry and eloquence, a term thrown out, so to speak, as a not fully grasped object of the speaker's consciousness -- a literary term, in short; and mankind mean different things by it as their consciousness differs. Matthew Arnold consciousness different mean Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours. Matthew Arnold complaining time men Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair. Matthew Arnold muse yellow looks Was Christ a man like us?-Ah! let us try If we then, too, can be such men as he! Matthew Arnold trying men christ Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium. Matthew Arnold mist philosopher poet Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. Matthew Arnold passionate class blood On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; Burghers and dames, at summer's prime, Ride out to church from Chamberry, Dight with mantles gay, But else it is a lonely time Round the Church of Brou. Matthew Arnold gay lonely summer I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture. Matthew Arnold believer culture Oxus, forgetting the bright speed he had In his high mountain cradle in Pamere, A foiled circuitous wanderertill at last The longed-for dash of waves is heard, and wide His luminous home of waters opens, bright And tranquil, from whose floor the new-bathed stars Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea. Matthew Arnold stars sea home Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said! Matthew Arnold creeps bed said For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry. Matthew Arnold today world ideas What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise? Matthew Arnold leisure shelter wise The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore, a nation whose spirit is characterised by energy may well be eminent in science; and we have Newton. Shakspeare [sic] and Newton: in the intellectual sphere there can be no higher names. And what that energy, which is the life of genius, above everything demands and insists upon, is freedom; entire independence of all authority, prescription and routine, the fullest room to expand as it will. Matthew Arnold names men science English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests me. Matthew Arnold interest body civilization The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion. Matthew Arnold leaving voice warning Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear -- And struck his finger on the place, And said -- Thou ailest here, and here. Matthew Arnold iron race suffering What actions are the most excellent? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. These feelings are permanent and the same; that which interests them is permanent and the same also. Matthew Arnold independent race feelings That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation. Matthew Arnold england class america For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion. Matthew Arnold illusion world ideas It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much; it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics. Matthew Arnold inward genius done
