Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGESome men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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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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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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What 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?
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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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