Poetry: the best words in the best order.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEGenius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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