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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)
He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all. View quote
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Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. View quote
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The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I. View quote
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Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war! View quote
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The knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust; His soul is with the saints, I trust. View quote
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In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. View quote
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The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves; Where was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves. View quote
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Who made you glorious as the gates of heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flower Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? 'God!' let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, 'God!' 'God! ' sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, 'God!'. View quote
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Manly energy ... is the proper rendering [for αρετην], and not virtue, at least in the present and ordinary acceptation of the word. View quote
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Shakespeare, no mere child of nature; no automaton of genius; no passive vehicle of inspiration possessed by the spirit, not possessing it; first studied patiently, meditated deeply, understood minutely, till knowledge became habitual and intuitive, wedded itself to his habitual feelings, and at length gave birth to that stupendous power by which he stands alone, with no equal or second in his own class; to that power which seated him on one of the two glorysmitten summits of the poetic mountain, with Milton аs his compeer, not rival. While the former darts himself forth, and passes into all the forms of human character and passion, the one Proteus of the fire and the flood; the other attracts all forms and things to himself, into the unity of his own Ideal. All things and modes of action shape themselves anew in the being of Milton; while Shakspeare becomes all things, yet for ever remaining himself. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Ye lightnings, the dread arrows of the clouds! Ye signs and wonders of the element! Utter forth ' God,' and fill the hills with praise! View quote
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Nought cared this Body for wind or weather When Youth and I lived in't together. View quote
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But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced:. View quote
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O dread and silent mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer, I worshipped the Invisible alone. View quote
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive. View quote
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It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. View quote
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A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the earth. View quote
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Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve, And Hope without an object cannot live. View quote
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Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. View quote
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Silence does not always mark wisdom. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration. View quote
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Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns. View quote
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling. View quote
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Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony. View quote
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