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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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