For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETo sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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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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