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The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow.

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If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

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It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were profoundly deep; but that over all, rocks, wood, and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its inmost depths.

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The sky is the soul of all scenery. It makes the earth lovely at sunrise and splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth a crystal-like ether, in the other a liquid gold.

Scenery, Sky, Soul, Sunset

We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out is our own ignorance and folly.

Eden, Ignorance, Shuts, Wall

To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.

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. . . nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity of the wilderness should pass away: for those scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature has never been lifted, affect the mind with a more deep toned emotion than aught which the hand of man has touched. Amid them the consequent associations are of God the creator-they are his undefiled works, and the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.

Associations, Consequent, Men, Nature, Regret, Scenes
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