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?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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