The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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