For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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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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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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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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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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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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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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