In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPersecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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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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.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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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.
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