Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWhat comes from the heart goes to the heart
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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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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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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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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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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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.
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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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