"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."
Quotes by Matthew Arnold
"Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming."
"Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again! For so the night will more than pay The hopeless longings of the day."
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary pro...
