Matthew Arnold quotes

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

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

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

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

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

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