As 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.
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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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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