Quote of the Day

What are the eternal subjects of poetry, among all nations and at all times? They are actions; human actions.

—Matthew Arnold

Quote of the Day

For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact.

—Matthew Arnold

Quote of the Day

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.

—Matthew Arnold