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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

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No one does anything from a single motive.

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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: October 21st, 1772

Died: July 25th, 1834

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