William Hazlitt Quotes

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

I think good music comes from the heart. That's my belief.

My heart and soul is still music.

Music is the soul of language.

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.

Language' is, I think, my favorite song that I've ever written.

Literature is the voice of the human heart.

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.

Music makes me alive in a way that nothing quite does. Good art, good film, good books, good dance. Exhibitions, history. Nature makes me feel alive. Georgia in the rain - that makes me feel alive. Compassion makes me feel alive. Hard fought victories for social rights.

The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.

In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us, ecstatic composers of narratives in words and on paper.

Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.

Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling endlessly away. If one could pin it to paper all complete, the others would lay down their pens. But it cannot be done.

My feeling is, music is a more eloquent international language than Coca-Cola or McDonalds.

The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.

Language is the machine of the poet.