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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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Angel Blessing Few Heaven Inspiration Overflow World
Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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Aged Children Inhuman Often Through World
Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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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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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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