About Matthew Arnold:
Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator. Matthew Arnold has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues.
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Matthew ArnoldHome of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
Matthew ArnoldTo have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
Matthew ArnoldCulture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
Matthew ArnoldThe true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Matthew Arnold