Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe 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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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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