The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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In 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.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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