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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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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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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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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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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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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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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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