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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.

Source: Lectures on the English Poets, On Poetry in General (1818).
-- William Hazlitt, (Apr 10 1778-1830), English writer, essayist; He wrote Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, 1817; also noted for essays on value of humanity.


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