Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEFor poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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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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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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