Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEMy eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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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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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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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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