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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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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Genius Highest Intensity Kind Power Unusual
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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Border Closely Friendship Love Men More Women
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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Believe Feel Interest Life Nature One Proper Thing
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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Accurately Beautiful Copy Faithfully Image Nature Observe Represent Themselves Word
The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Bard Commandment Eight Made
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Great Intolerance Mind Seen Shown Support Tolerance
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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Enough Foresight Gladness Gratitude Joy Lesson Long Tale Wisdom
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Alone Day Ill Imaginary Pearl
For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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Blossom Emotion Fragrance Human Knowledge Language Passion Poetry Thought
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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Amusement Annoy Company Look Men Object People Person Race
How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Before Children Dance General Graceful Immutable Team
Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Form Heart Honor Men Opinion Own True
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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Begin Better Christianity Church Love Procced Sect Truth
It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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Affirm Almost Book Excellent Good Hold Like Milton Quality Remark Say Truth Well
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Always Degree Genius Humor People Some
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Deficient Humor Mind Organize Sense Throughout

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