Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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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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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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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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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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