No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEImagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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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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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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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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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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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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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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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.
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