Line in nature is not found;Unit and universe are round;In vain produced, all rays return;Evil will bless, and ice will burn.
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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.
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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
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Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.
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Every word was once a poem.
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Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can neve...
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The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inhe...
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
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Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator com...
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Language is fossil Poetry.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calami...
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Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or ci...
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Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.
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The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre. For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is...
