Quotes by Hazlitt, William

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the es >>

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We canno >>

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of g >>

Quotations about Poetry and Poets

The eye is the notebook of the poet. >>

A poet can survive anything but a misprint. >>

In the works of the better poets you get the sensation that they're no >>

The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner.

Hazlitt, William