Author: Matthew Arnold

Quotes

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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

- Matthew Arnold

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

- 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.

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

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

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.

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

- Matthew Arnold

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

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

- Matthew Arnold

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

- Matthew Arnold

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