Matthew Arnold Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our buried life; A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original course; A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this heart which beats So wild, so deep in us—to know Whence our lives come and where they go.

  Matthew Arnold

  Heart, Fire, Desire

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.24, Courier Corporation

• Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears a voice within it tell: Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. 'Tis all perhaps which man acquires, But 'tis not what our youth desires.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Grateful, Sleep

  Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.141

• Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.

  Matthew Arnold

  Blood, Two, Solitude

  'Stanzas in Memory of the Author of "Obermann", November 1849' l. 93

• The uppermost idea with Hellenism is to see things as they really are; the uppermost ideas with Hebraism is conduct and obedience.Nothing can do away with this ineffaceable difference. The Greek quarrel with the body and its desires is, that they hinder right thinking; the Hebrew quarrel with them is, that they hinder right acting.

  Matthew Arnold

  Thinking, Ideas, Differences

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