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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.

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The imagination of a boy is healthy and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between in which the soul is in fer...more

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

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Ever let the Fancy roam Pleasure never is at home.

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Besides, a long poem is a test of invention, which I take to be the Polar star of Poetry, as Fancy is the sails - and Imagination the rudder.

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What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.