In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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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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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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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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