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Matthew Arnold Quotes
Page 2 of 2Matthew Arnold
December 24, 1822 - April 15, 1888
Nationality: English
Category: Poet
Subcategory: English Poet
|  Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world. | | The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. | | Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. | | Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. | | Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. | | It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done. | | Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. | | France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme. | | Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! | | Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. |
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