It 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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEGuilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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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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