Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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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 first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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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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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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