A sight to dream of, not to tell!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWhat if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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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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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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