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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music is the universal language of mankind — poetry their universal pastime and delight.

Music is the universal language of mankind — poetry their universal pastime and delight.

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William Hazlitt

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself.

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.

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William Hazlitt

All that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it.

All that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it.

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James Thurber

One great advantage which poetry has over prose

One great advantage which poetry has over prose—one sense in which, we might even say, it is considerably more beautiful—is that it fills up space approximately three times as rapidly.