Maxioms by Matthew Arnold
Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep,
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Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep,
More grateful than this marble sleep;
It hears a voice within it tell:
Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.
'Tis all perhaps which man acquires,
But 'tis not what our youth desires.
They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that
he may live.
They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that
he may live.
Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit read more
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.
Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. -Matthew Arnold.
Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. -Matthew Arnold.
The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject
The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject
