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MATTHEW ARNOLD QUOTES
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
English poet
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Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.
MATTHEW ARNOLD, A Question
- Nature, with equal mind,
- Sees all her sons at play,
- Sees man control the wind,
- The wind sweep man away.
MATTHEW ARNOLD, Empedocles on Etna
With women the heart argues, not the mind.
The same heart beats in every human breast.
MATTHEW ARNOLD, The Buried Life
- Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he
- Who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLD, Self-Dependence
The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
MATTHEW ARNOLD, Essays in Criticism, Second Series
- Yet they, believe me, who await
- No gifts from Chance, have conquer'd Fate.
MATTHEW ARNOLD, Resignation
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
MATTHEW ARNOLD, quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners
Miracles do not happen.
MATTHEW ARNOLD, preface to Literature and Dogma
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
MATTHEW ARNOLD, Sohrab and Rustum
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