Matthew Arnold Quotes on Beauty
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The power of the Latin classic is in character, that of the Greek is in beauty. Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of the interesting, which are elevation and beauty.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and wisely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening.
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The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I.
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A beautiful and ineffectual angel [Shelley], beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.