121 ordspråk av Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold föddes den December 24th 1822 och dog den 15 April 1888 - of Literacy and Society.
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 Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it |
| Not deep the poet sees, but wide. |
| Not here, O Apollo! / Are haunts meet for thee. / But, where Helicon breaks down / In cliff to the sea. |
| Now the great winds shoreward blow, / Now the salt tides seaward flow; / Now the wild white horses play, / Champ and chafe and toss in the spray. |
| One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common - discontent |
| One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common - discontent |
| Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. |
| Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace. |
| Philistine gives the notion of something particularly stiff-necked and perverse in the resistance to light and its children; and therein it specially suits our middle-class. |
| Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of light. |
| Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing. |
| Poetry is at bottom a criticism of life. |
| Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things |
| Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power. |
| Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. |
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