Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGELanguage 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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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