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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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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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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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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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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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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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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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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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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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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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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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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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