Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagin...
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No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.
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The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into ...
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Treading beneath their feet all visible things, As steps that upwards to their Father's throne ...
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Those holies of themselves a shape As of an arbor took.
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Ah! replied my gentle fair, Beloved, what are names but air? Choose thou, whatever suits the ...
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Iago's soliloquy--the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity--how awful it is!
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The mother says to her daughter: Daughter bid thy daughter, to her daughter, that her daughter's d...
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Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe
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Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.
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Ancestral voices prophesying war.
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Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book t...
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Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if wit...
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I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Experience informs us that the first defense of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, t...
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Five miles meandering with mazy motion,
Through dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the ca...
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Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.
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All thoughts, all passions, all delightsWhatever stirs this mortal frameAll are but ministers of Lov...
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Our myriad-minded Shakespeare.
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So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
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Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea.
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Or soar aloft to be the spangled skies And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes.
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Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course?
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And the spring comes slowly up this way.
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The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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All thoughts, all passions, all delights, whatever stirs this mortal frame, all are but ministers of...
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is s...
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards
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The bride hath paced into the hall, / Red as a rose is she.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro...
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If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that...
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I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book
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The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: / At one stride comes the dark.
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Life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the br...
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He saw a cottage with a double coach house, A cottage of gentility; And the Devil did grin, for his ...
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Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with mus...
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Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph
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As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale -- my dreams become the substances of my life.
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It was a miracle of rare device, a sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough ...
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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
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A savage place! as holy and enchanted / As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted / By woman wailing...
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman wor...
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The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold.
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The Knight's bones are dust, / And his good sword rust; - / His soul is with the saints, I trust.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weap...
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A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the m...
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The one red leaf, the last of its clan, / That dances as often as dance it can, / Hanging so light, ...
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
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In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the fi...
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No man does anything from a single motive
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree
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When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, / And the owlet whoops to the wolf below.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discov...
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a ...
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We were a ghastly crew.
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Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
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Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
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Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth
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It is an ancient mariner, / And he stoppeth one of three.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly
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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of...
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discov...
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What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul
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