Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.


A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (ed. 1764)

Edmund Burke Quotes

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.