"A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket.……" — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"A poet ought not to pick nature's 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."

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