Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoetry: the best words in the best order.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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