“Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask: Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. Matthew Arnold
“[A] beautiful and ineffectual angel [Shelley], beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.Matthew Arnold
“I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday; I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.Matthew Arnold
“Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.Matthew Arnold
“Thou waitest for the spark from heaven: and we, Light half-believers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor clearly willed… Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose tomorrow the ground won today— Ah! do not we, wanderer! await it too? Matthew Arnold