It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAll powerful souls have kindred with each other
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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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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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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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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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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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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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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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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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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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