Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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