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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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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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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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Dearer Enthusiasm Great Nothing Self Swallowing
An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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