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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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Generally Give Mist Perfect Poetry Understood
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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Beautiful Character Delineation Genesis Patriarch Wonderful
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Mad Man Mistake Person Thing
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Animal Brute Consonant Man Only Sound User Vowel
He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Best Inspiration Moment Prepare Serve
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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Affectionate Converge Experience Literal Literature Pursue Short Tarde Youthful
He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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Balance Constantly Diffuse Fuse Healthy Maintain Mind Processes Tone Unity
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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Follow Precede Sea Shape Single Thought Wave
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Always Degree Genius Humor People Some
A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Dream Lie Sight
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Alone Day Ill Imaginary Pearl
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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Country God Peaceful Person Profound Relation Reverence Surprise
The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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After Age Day Drink Excess Feel Like Match Over Seem Sime Sore Stimulation Sustain
Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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Admore Disquiesting Emotion Like Much Raed Remember Synimen
Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Contain Nothing Otherwise Permanently Reason
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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Above Affectionate Birth Gentle Heigh Imesaurebale

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