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 HazlittAbout author
- Author's profession: Critic, Writer
- Nationality: english
- Born: April 10, 1778
- Died: September 18, 1830
Related Authors
Topics
Quotes currently Trending
![Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud quote: "We will not accept in our country even a single soldier who..."](/pic/63585/600x316/quotation-sultan-bin-abdul-aziz-al-saud-we-will-not-accept-in-our-country.jpg)
Christ knew that by bread alone you cannot reanimate man. If there were no spiritual life, no ideal of Beauty, man would pine away, die, go mad, kill himself or give himself to pagan fantasies. And as Christ, the ideal of Beauty in Himself and his Word, he decided it was better to implant the ideal of Beauty in the soul. If it exists in the soul, each would be the brother of everyone else and then, of course, working for each other, all would also be rich. Whereas if you give them bread, they...
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like dogs that lick everything they smell. You with your promise of a humdrum happiness--provided a person doesn't ask much of life. I want everything of life, I do; and I want it now! I want it total, complete: otherwise I reject it! I will not be moderate. I will not be satisfied with the bit of cake you offer me if I promise to be a good little girl. I want to be sure of everything...
Jean Anouilh