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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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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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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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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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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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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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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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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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