No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEEven 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!
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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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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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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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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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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