"Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty."
Matthew Arnold"Journalism is literature in a hurry."
Matthew Arnold"Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things."
Matthew Arnold"Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern."
Matthew Arnold"Truth sits upon the lips of dying men."
Matthew Arnold"Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair."
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"The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion."
Matthew Arnold"Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur."
Matthew Arnold