Silence does not always mark wisdom.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEGenius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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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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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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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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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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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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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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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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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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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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