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
class heaven likes
The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.
kings dumb modern
The kings of modern thought are dumb.
beautiful heart garden
Beautiful city! . . . spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . her ineffable charm. . . . Adorable dreamer, whose heart has been so romantic!
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.
world force ready
Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
sight soul hustle
And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
beautiful wise strong
The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of godlike power are in us still; Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!
dust soul each-day
And each day brings it's pretty dust, Our soon-choked souls to fll And we forget because we must, And not because we will.
sea sick bears
Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea.
time healing europe
Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force: But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?
creative alive proof
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
perfection culture study
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
dream despair needs
Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
happiness wise men
All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.