Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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