Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEGenius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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