Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENo mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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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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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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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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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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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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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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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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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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