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An uncommon degree of imagination constitutes poetical genius. - [Imagination] Every breach of veracity indicates some latent vice or some criminal intention, which the individual is ashamed to avow. - [Falsehood] Nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken not only the powers of invention, but the intellectual powers in general, as a habit of extensive and various reading without reflection. - [Reading] In vain does Memory renew The hours once tinged in transport's dye: The sad reverse soon starts to view And turns the past to agony. - The Tear I Shed [Memory]
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