6 Matthew Arnold Quotes on Beauty

Matthew Arnold quotes on beauty

37. 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.

48. 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.

83. Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and wisely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance.

88. And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening.

90. The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I.

117. A beautiful and ineffectual angel [Shelley], beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.