The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIt has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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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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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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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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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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