Matthew Arnold Quotes on Self
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well - but 'tis not true!
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Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery.
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It is - last stage of all - When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves, To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.
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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.
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Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole.