Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe 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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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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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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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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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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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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