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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEDeep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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