People · 1818
All that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it.
— William Hazlitt · Lectures on the English Poets
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The line calls the memorable part of life its poetry. Read figuratively, that means the qualities that give experience resonance, beauty or emotional force. The sweeping claim values what stays alive in memory beyond a bare record of events, without restricting significance to written verse.
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