"It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."
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"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."
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"The goodness of the true pun is in direct ratio to its intolerability"
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"years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute."
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"the play was the tragedy "man" and it's hero the conqueror worm"
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"That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful."
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"As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus would have been at the mercy of the Prefect"
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"I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active --not more happy --nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."
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"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."
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"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
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"Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them."
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"The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire."
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"I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror."
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"It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial."
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"Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight, half of anxiety."
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"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
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"I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty"
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"Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard."
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"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
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"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary."
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"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ''the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.'' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ''Artist.''"
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"The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true."
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"The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee."
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"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."
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"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it."
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"I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."
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"Stupidity is a talent for misconception."
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"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence."
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"Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last."
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"That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward."
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"In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me."
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"Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance."
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"The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire"
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"To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair."
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"There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man."
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"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream."
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"I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat."
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"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."
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"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."
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"We loved with a love that was more than love."
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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."
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"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream."
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"The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true"
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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
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