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He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize his own aspirations, either in religion or politics, or society, he gave up his heart to the living spirit and light within him, and avenged himself on the world by enriching it with this record of his own transcendental ideal.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, literary critic and philosopher (1772–1834)

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Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it.