George Crabbe Quotes
English - Poet December 24, 1754 - February 3, 1832

To sigh, yet not recede;
to grieve, yet not repent.
George Crabbe

With eye upraised
his master's looks to scan,
The joy, the solace,
and the aid of man;

The rich man's guardian,
and the poor man's friend,
The only creature
faithful to the end.
George Crabbe

To show the world
what long experience gains,
requires not courage,
though it calls for pains;
but at life's outset
to inform mankind
is a bold effort
of a valiant mind.
George Crabbe

Better to love amiss
than nothing to have loved.
George Crabbe

Feed the musician,
and he's out of tune.
George Crabbe

To the house of a friend
if you're pleased to retire,

You must all things admit,
you must all things admire;

You must pay with observance
the price of your treat,

You must eat what is praised,
and must praise what you eat.
George Crabbe

Our farmers round,
well pleased with constant gain,
Like other farmers,
flourish and complain.
George Crabbe

Be there a will,
and wisdom finds a way.
George Crabbe

In her experience
all her friends relied,

Heaven was her help
and nature was her guide.
George Crabbe

The game is never lost till won.
George Crabbe

A great lie is like
a great fish on dry land;
it may fret and fling
and make a frightful bother,
but it cannot hurt you.
You have only to keep still,
and it will die of itself.
George Crabbe


Eliza Cook Quotes
English - Poet December 24, 1818 - September 23, 1889

How cruelly sweet
are the echoes that start,

When memory plays
an old tune on the heart.
Eliza Cook

There's a magical tie
to the land of our home,
which the heart cannot break,
though the footsteps may roam.
Eliza Cook

Why should we strive,
with cynic frown,
to knock their
fairy castles down?
Eliza Cook

Though language
forms the preacher,
'Tis good works
make the man.
Eliza Cook

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
Eliza Cook


Matthew Arnold Quotes
English - Poet December 24, 1822 - April 15, 1888

Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
Matthew Arnold

The pursuit of perfection, then,
is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Matthew Arnold

Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Matthew Arnold

The need of expansion
is as genuine an instinct in man
as the need in a plant
for the light,
or the need in man himself
for going upright.

The love of liberty
is simply the instinct in man
for expansion.
Matthew Arnold


Nature, with equal mind,
Sees all her sons at play,
Sees man control the wind,
The wind sweep man away.
Matthew Arnold

It is so small a thing
to have enjoyed the sun,
to have lived light
in the spring,
to have loved,
to have thought,
to have done.
Matthew Arnold

The true meaning
of religion is thus,
not simply morality,
but morality touched
by emotion.
Matthew Arnold

Greatness is a spiritual condition
worthy to excite love,
interest, and admiration;
and the outward proof
of possessing greatness
is that we excite love,
interest and admiration.
Matthew Arnold

Our society distributes itself
into Barbarians,
Philistines and Populace;
and America is just ourselves
with the Barbarians quite left out,
and the Populace nearly.
Matthew Arnold

Use your gifts faithfully,
and they shall be enlarged;
practice what you know,
and you shall attain
to higher knowledge.
Matthew Arnold

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald,
with a baldness full of grandeur.
Matthew Arnold

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
Matthew Arnold

For the creation of a masterwork
of literature two powers must concur,
the power of the man
and the power of the moment,
and the man is not enough
without the moment.
Matthew Arnold

Because thou must not dream,
thou need not despair.
Matthew Arnold

The freethinking of one age
is the common sense of the next.
Matthew Arnold

Sad Patience,
too near neighbour
to despair.
Matthew Arnold

Culture is properly described
as the love of perfection;
it is a study of perfection.
Matthew Arnold

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Matthew Arnold

Conduct is three-fourths of our life
and its largest concern.
Matthew Arnold

Not a having and a resting,
but a growing and becoming,
is the character of perfection
as culture conceives it.
Matthew Arnold

Still bent to make some port he knows not where,
still standing for some false impossible shore.
Matthew Arnold

Home of lost causes,
and forsaken beliefs,
and unpopular names,
and impossible loyalties!
Matthew Arnold

And we forget
because we must
and not
because we will.
Matthew Arnold

Resolve to be thyself:
and know that he
who finds himself,
loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold

To have the sense
of creative activity
is the great happiness
and the great proof
of being alive.
Matthew Arnold

It is almost impossible
to exaggerate the proneness
of the human mind
to take miracles
as evidence,
and to seek
for miracles as evidence.
Matthew Arnold

Spare me the whispering,
crowded room,
the friends who come
and gape and go,
the ceremonious air of gloom - all,
which makes death a hideous show.
Matthew Arnold

France,
famed in all great arts,
in none supreme.
Matthew Arnold


Juan Ramon Jimenez Quotes
Spanish - Poet December 24, 1881 - May 29, 1958

Sharp nostalgia,
infinite and terrible,
for what I already possess.
Juan Ramon Jimenez

Literature is a state of culture,
poetry is a state of grace,
before and after culture.
Juan Ramon Jimenez

If they give you ruled paper,
write the other way.
Juan Ramon Jimenez