The interpretations of science do not give us this intimate sense of objects as the interpretations of poetry give it; they appeal to a limited faculty, and not to the whole man. It is not Linnaeus or Cavendish or Cuvier who gives us the true sense of animals, or water, or plants, who seizes their secret for us, who makes us participate in their life; it is Shakspeare [sic] … Wordsworth … Keats … Chateaubriand … Senancour.


The Journal of Maurice de Guérin: With an Essay by Matthew Arnold, and a Memoir by Sainte Beuve (ed. 1867)

Matthew Arnold Quotes

The interpretations of science do not give us this intimate sense of objects as the interpretations of poetry give it; they appeal to a limited...

The interpretations of science do not give us this intimate sense of objects as the interpretations of poetry give it; they appeal to a limited...

The interpretations of science do not give us this intimate sense of objects as the interpretations of poetry give it; they appeal to a limited...

The interpretations of science do not give us this intimate sense of objects as the interpretations of poetry give it; they appeal to a limited...