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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEImagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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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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