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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 Coleridge

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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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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.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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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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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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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.
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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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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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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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