Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented...

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented...

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed...

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed...

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams...

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams...

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before...

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before...

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only...

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only...

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the...

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the...

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace;...

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace;...

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or...

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or...

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a...

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a...

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and...

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and...

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government...

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government...

Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work...

Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work...

Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today.

Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today.

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.