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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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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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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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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