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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThat willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or 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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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