The quotations of

Matthew Arnold

British poet and cultural critic

1822–1888

24 quotes, most often on Poetry, Politics and Writing.

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another!
Dover Beach (1867), st. 4In context
- Love
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Dover Beach (1867), st. 4In context
- War & Peace
Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
Culture and Anarchy (1869), Ch. I, Sweetness and Light
- Art
The same heart beats in every human breast!
“The Buried Life”, st. 2 (1852)
- Emotion
The free-thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
God and the Bible (1875)
- Change
- Thinking
The people who believe most that our greatness and welfare are proved by our being very rich, and who most give their lives and thoughts to becoming rich, are just the very people whom we call the Philistines.
Culture and Anarchy (1869), Ch. I, Sweetness and Light
- Money
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance.
Essays in Criticism (1865), “Heinrich Heine”
- Poetry
The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
On Translating Homer: Last Words (1862)
- Poetry
The sea of faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.
Dover Beach (1867)In context
- Faith
- Religion

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