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Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

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Let Nature be your teacher

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poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

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But He is risen, a later star of dawn.

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Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.

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Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?

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Nature's old felicities.

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Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all

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That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

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Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.

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The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart.

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The thought of death sits easy on the man Who has been born and dies among the mountains.

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A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.

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A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.

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I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.

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O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?

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And what if thou, sweet May, hast known Mishap by worm and blight; If expectations newly blown Have perished in thy sight; If loves and joys, while up they sprung, Were caught as in a snare; Such is the lot of all the young, However bright and fair.

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Heaven lies about us in our infancy.

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Books are the best type of the influence of the past.

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The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

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