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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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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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