Famous 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 himself, or for anything else."

William Hazlitt on Poetry

More quotes about Poetry

• "All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling."

  Oscar Wilde on Poetry

• "A poet can survive everything but a misprint."

  Oscar Wilde on Poetry

• "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."

  T. S. Eliot on Poetry

• "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

  Robert Frost on Poetry

• "A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

  Robert Frost on Poetry

More quotes by William Hazlitt

• "To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

• "Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal."

• "Rules and models destroy genius and art."

• "The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."

• "Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses."