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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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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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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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