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Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become soon dear as the temples self, so d...more

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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.

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The imagination of a boy is healthy and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between in which the soul is in fer...more

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If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.

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Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art--Not in lone splendour hung aloft the nightAnd watching, with eternal lids apart,Like nature's patient...more

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No one can usurp the heights...But those to whom the miseries of the worldAre misery, and will not let them rest.

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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

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Ever let the Fancy roam Pleasure never is at home.

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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

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Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.

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The same that oft-times hath charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn.

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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

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My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk

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A drainless shower of light is poesy 'tis the supreme of power 'tis might half slumb'ring on its own right arm.

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What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.