Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENature 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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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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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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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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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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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 man does anything from a single motive.
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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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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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