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 COLERIDGEGenius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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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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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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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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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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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 first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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