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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEFor poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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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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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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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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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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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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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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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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