What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise? Matthew Arnold More Quotes by Matthew Arnold More Quotes From Matthew Arnold Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Matthew Arnold tranquil change men The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Matthew Arnold faith wind night On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence. Matthew Arnold foam bells history Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born. Matthew Arnold born two world Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. Matthew Arnold standing-alone hope impossible Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go? Soon will the high Midsummer pomps come on, Soon will the musk carnations break and swell. Matthew Arnold carnations musk break Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it interprets by expressing, with inspired conviction, the ideas and laws of the inward world of man's moral and spiritual nature. In other words, poetry is interpretative both by having natural magic in it, and by having moral profundity. Matthew Arnold spiritual law men Eutrapelia . "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians...lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom from prejudice and freedom from stiffness, openness of mind, amiability of manners. Matthew Arnold prejudice quality mind Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron 's struggle cease. Matthew Arnold struggle sleep long If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer. Matthew Arnold heroism mediocrity men Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed. Matthew Arnold light strong thinking And amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne. Matthew Arnold thrones intellectual suffering The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I. Matthew Arnold gone Ah, love, let us be true Matthew Arnold certitude being-true love How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude! Matthew Arnold secrecy solitude mind Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held. Matthew Arnold truth giving men Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling Matthew Arnold lit ethics feelings The heart less bounding at emotion new, The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again. Matthew Arnold emotion heart spring Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show. Matthew Arnold whispering air rooms We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind things true, things elevated, things just, things pure, things amiable, things of good report; having these in mind, studying and loving these, is what saves states. Matthew Arnold doctrine truth mind
