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A poet ought not to pick natures pocket. Let him borrow, and so bo

A poet ought not to pick natures pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another. – John Burroughs

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