The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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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.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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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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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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Men 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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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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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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