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| The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. |
| Imagination; Inspiration; Joy; Nature |
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| The Vision of Christ that thou dost see / Is my vision's greatest enemy. |
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| The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God. |
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| The whore and gambler, by the state Licensed, build the nation's fate |
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| The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature. |
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| Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. |
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Then every man of every clime,
That prays in his distress,
Prays to the human form divine,
Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace. |
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| Then I asked: `Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?' He replied: `All Poets believe that it does, and in ages of imagination this firm persuasion removed mountains; but many are not capable of a firm persuasion of anything.' |
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| Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. |
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| There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness. |
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| There certainly are moments in history when poets and painters connect so closely as to be one and the same person, |
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There is a smile of love,
And there is a smile of deceit,
And there is a smile of smiles
In which these two smiles meet. |
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| There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on. |
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| They said this mystery never shall cease: the priest promotes war, and the soldier peace |
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| They suppose that Woman's Love is Sin; in consequence all the Loves & Graces with them are Sin. |
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| Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. |
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| Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: ''the Son, O how unlike the Father!'' First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it. |
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