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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWhen a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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