Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts and appear almost a remembrance.

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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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    I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love.

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    For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

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