Matthew Arnold Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.”

“Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!”

“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.”

“To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.”

“Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.”

“It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.”

“Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.”

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

“Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration.”

“Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.”