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
men frozen world
It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
ideas world today
For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
ideas world illusion
For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
world culture said
Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world
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.
time together world
If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
two world born
Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.
world force ready
Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
class world earth
One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class.
life men world
To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.
dream men world
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.
happiness joy world
The world hath failed to impart the joy our youth forebodes; failed to fill up the void which in our breasts we bear.
criticism world definitions
I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
men world fool
The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.