To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEClergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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The 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.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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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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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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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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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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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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