An undevout poet is an impossibility.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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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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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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