The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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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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No man does anything from a single motive.
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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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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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