Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe 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.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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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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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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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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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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