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
genius may energy
Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.
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Miracles do not happen.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry
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There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."
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The kings of modern thought are dumb.
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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?
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Six years-six little years-six drops of time.
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ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture.