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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEUntil you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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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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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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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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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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