7 Matthew Arnold Quotes on Emotion

Matthew Arnold quotes on emotion

21. How thick the bursts come crowding through the leaves! Again - thou hearest? Eternal passion! Eternal pain!

30. With women the heart argues, not the mind.

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38. Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel - below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.

44. For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.

67. The day in his hotness, The strife with the palm; The night in her silence, The stars in their calm.

91. Yes, thou art gone! and round me too the night In ever-nearing circle weaves her shade. I see her veil draw soft across the day, I feel her slowly chilling breath invade The cheek grown thin, the brown hair sprent with grey; I feel her finger light Laid pausefully upon life's headlong train; - The foot less prompt to meet the morning dew, The heart less bounding at emotion new, And hope, once crush'd, less quick to spring again.

120. The same heart beats in every human breast.