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Matthew Arnold Quotes

English - Poet | December 24, 1822 - April 15, 1888

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Truth Men Lips Dying

Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.

Waiting Spark Fall Heaven

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

Communication Beautiful Poetry Saying

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

Light Perfection Sweetness Pursuit

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

Happiness Great Creative Alive Sense

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.

Power Moment Man Literature Enough

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

Nature Mountain Bald Full Bare Tops

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

Love Culture Perfection Study

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

Character Culture Perfection Growing

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.

Death Me Friends Go Air Room

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

Impossible Shore False Standing Port

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

Life Beauty Truth Poetry Criticism

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