Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and…

William Hazlitt
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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. ✨ William Hazlitt (1845). Lectures on the English Poets, p.1
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