Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHTo me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
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In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.
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My heart leaps up when I behold
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Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.
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But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.
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The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
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A voice so thrilling ne’er was heard. Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.
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True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Till heart with heart in concord beats, and the lover is beloved.
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But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
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Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.
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To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together. Humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
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Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge – it is as immortal as the heart of man.
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Memories -images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.
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Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
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Wisdom married to immortal verse.
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He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,- The past unsighed for, and the future sure.
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