Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEGenius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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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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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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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.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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