Matthew Arnold Quotes

English - Poet December 24, 1822 - April 15, 1888

Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.

Matthew Arnold

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

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.

Matthew Arnold

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

Matthew Arnold

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

Matthew Arnold

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

Matthew Arnold

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Matthew Arnold

Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.

Matthew Arnold