Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.


Lectures on the English Poets (1818) - Lecture I, "On Poetry in General"

William Hazlitt Quotes

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for...

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for...

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for...

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for...