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 .
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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