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The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

At thirty a man suspects himself a fool;

Never forget what I believe was observed to you by Coleridge, that every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

Be wise with speed;

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.

It may be safely affirmed, that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.

Our meddling intellect

A perfect woman; nobly planned,

She was a phantom of delight.

A violet by a mossy stone

Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned,

In common things that round us lie

To me the meanest flower that blows can give

And by the vision splendid

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:

The rainbow comes and goes,

My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky:

It is a beauteous evening, calm and free.

The light that never was, on sea or land,

Earth has not anything to show more fair:

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.

What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.