Poetry: the best words in the best order.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIt 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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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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The 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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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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