Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAn undevout poet is an impossibility.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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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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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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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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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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