Poetry should be great and unobtrusive a thing which enters into one's soul and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject.

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I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

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