Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEImagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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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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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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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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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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