Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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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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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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