Matthew Arnold Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Beautiful, Dream

  "Dover Beach" l. 35 (1867)

• Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

  Matthew Arnold

  Happiness, Beautiful, Dream

  "Dover Beach" l. 29 (1867)

• Thought and science follow their own law of development; they are slowly elaborated in the growth and forward pressure of humanity, in what Shakespeare calls
  ...The prophetic soul,
  Of the wide world dreaming on things to come.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Science, Law

  Matthew Arnold, Robert Henry Super (1968). “Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold: Dissent and dogma”

• Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again. For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Night, Pay

  'Faded Leaves' (1855) no. 5 (first published, 1852, as 'Longing')

• 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

• Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die, Like spring flowers. Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves, with bitter tears, For their dead hopes; and all, Mazed with doubts, and sick with fears, Count the hours.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Dream, Spring

  Matthew Arnold, Miriam Farris Allott, Robert Henry Super (1986). “Matthew Arnold”, Oxford University Press, USA

• Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Despair, Needs

• Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Men, Doe

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.97, Delphi Classics

• Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Wall, Work

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Sweet, June

  'Thyrsis' (1866) l. 19

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