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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 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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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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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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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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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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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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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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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Atheist Denies God Idea
Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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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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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Beat Hope Ingenioyus Inspire Most Physician
We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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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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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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