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No man does anything from a single motive.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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Angel Depend Devil Downward Man Rise Sinki Upward
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Mad Man Mistake Person Thing
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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Best Cleaver Definition Homely Order Poet Poetry Prose Remember Wish Word Young
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Body Dewarfish Epigram Soul Whole Wit
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Constitution Disbelief Faith Moment Poetic Suspension Willing
In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Conceal Full Heart Love Many Presence Reveal Way
I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Form Foundation Home Outward Passion Win
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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Already Author Biographer Country Man People Person Runed
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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Arise Beautiful Constructive Harmony Imagination Inborn Judgement Object Perceive Rule Sight Sound
All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Each Kindred Other Powerful Soul
We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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Also Beast Consciousness Difference Kind Possession Same Soul
An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Imoosisbly Poet Undevout
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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Claim Essential Genuine Greatest Pleasure Poem Possesses Power Read Return
This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Angel Blessing Few Heaven Inspiration Overflow World
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Generally Give Mist Perfect Poetry Understood
How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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Beautiful Character Delineation Genesis Patriarch Wonderful

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