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22 September 1830.
Table Talk (1821–1834)
Context: 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 your imagination than to your memory.

“Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.”
“Insult I,” p. 104
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Is It Possible to Write a Poem”

“The Word equals the book or, holy scripture. That is religion.”