Quote#Speech
Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's
Quote byWalter Savage Landor · 1775–1864
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: To Robert Browning (1846). Compare: "Nor sequent centuries could hit/ Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit", Ralph Waldo Emerson, May-Day and Other Pieces, Solution..
English (original)
Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's, Therefore on him no speech! and brief for thee, Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walked along our roads with step So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse.
— Walter Savage Landor
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