That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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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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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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