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Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
English Poet
Born: Dec 24, 1822
Died: Apr 15, 1888
Culture Impossible Light Love Man Who
Related authors: Alexander Pope Alfred Lord Tennyson John Keats John Milton Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert Browning William Blake William Wordsworth
Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall. Matthew Arnold
Waiting Fall Heaven Spark
Journalism is literature in a hurry. Matthew Arnold
Communication Hurry Journalism Literature
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. Matthew Arnold
Beautiful Saying Communication Most Beautiful Poetry Simply Most Effective Impressive Mode Things Widely
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. Matthew Arnold
Resolve Finds Misery He Thyself Know Himself Loses His Who
Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world. Matthew Arnold
Best Culture World Thought Has-Been Know Said Been
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. Matthew Arnold
Truth Men Lips Dying
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. Matthew Arnold
Nature Tops Bald Baldness Mountain Grandeur Bare Full
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. Matthew Arnold
Light Pursuit Perfection Then Sweetness
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. Matthew Arnold
Love Culture Properly Perfection Study
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
Society Our Ourselves Out Left Itself America Quite Just Barbarians Populace Nearly
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration. Matthew Arnold
Love Spiritual Possessing Worthy Admiration Proof Excite Outward Condition Greatness Interest
And we forget because we must and not because we will. Matthew Arnold
Will Must Because Forget
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. Matthew Arnold
Life Truth Criticism Beauty Laws Poetic Poetry Conditions Fixed
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
Light Thought Spring Sun Small Done Loved Lived Thing Enjoyed
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. Matthew Arnold
Happiness Great Creative Sense Alive Proof Being Activity
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. Matthew Arnold
Age Sense Common Common Sense Next
Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair. Matthew Arnold
Despair Thou Dream Must Because Need
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. Matthew Arnold
Impossible Bent Some He Make Knows Still False Shore Where Standing Port
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair. Matthew Arnold
Sad Patience Too Despair Neighbour Near
France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme. Matthew Arnold
Great France Supreme None Arts

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