My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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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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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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