Matthew Arnold
Quotes
- Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
- Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.