Poetry: the best words in the best order.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThat gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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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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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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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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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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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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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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