That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEMen 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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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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