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 .
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEDay 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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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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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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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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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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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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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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