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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAs 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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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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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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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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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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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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