Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge – it is as immortal as the heart of man.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHDelight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.
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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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In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.
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O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
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Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.
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The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
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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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Memories -images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.
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My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
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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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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.
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I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
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There is creation in the eye.
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Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
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A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light.
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