Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnoldwas an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator. Matthew Arnold has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth24 December 1822
emotion ethics morality
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
inspirational reality literature
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
horse blow play
Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
life dream spring
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.
life sick disease
This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
dance culture world
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
energy genius affair
Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
beautiful impressive poetry-is
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
art destiny race
The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay ... More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us.
miracle fairy witchcraft
Miracles are doomed; they will drop out like fairies and witchcraft, from...
men light intuition
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.
inspirational inspiring sadness
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
class wealth middle
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
gay years age
Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.