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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAll powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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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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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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