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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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Absolute First Great Requisite Sincerity
Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Agent Al Human Imagination Live Perception Power Prime
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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Characteristics Formula Law Prohibitive Prudence Rule Stine Table
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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After Day Idl Motion Nebat Ocean Painted Stuck Upon
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Alone Day Ill Imaginary Pearl
Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Defense Experience First Inform Mind Recrimable Weak
For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Avoid Energy Evil Good Negative Power
A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Feel Look Man Old She Woman
Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Anime Better Fame Family Tranquility
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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Aged Children Inhuman Often Through World
This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Angel Blessing Few Heaven Inspiration Overflow World
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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According Activity Describe Facilities Perfection Poet Relative Soul Subordination
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.
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Accurately Beautiful Copy Faithfully Image Nature Observe Represent Themselves Word
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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Animal Brute Disgust Healthy Man Mind Over Prevails Processes Proportion Sense

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