No man does anything from a single motive.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThat willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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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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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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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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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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