Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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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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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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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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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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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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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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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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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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