The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI 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.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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