“It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.”
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The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.
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The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.
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Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.
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Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.
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