Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.More Matthew Arnold quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.More Matthew Arnold quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

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.More Matthew Arnold quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.More Matthew Arnold quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

But the idea of science and systematic knowledge is wanting to our whole instruction alike, and not only to that of our business class ... In nothing do England and the Continent at the present moment more strikingly differ than in the prominence which is now given to the idea of science there, and the neglect in which this idea still lies here; a neglect so great that we hardly even know the use of the word science in its strict sense, and only employ it in a secondary and incorrect sense.More Matthew Arnold quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]