Matthew Arnold

“Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.”

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

“Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.”

“Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.”

“Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.”

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

“The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.”