That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEDay after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Even 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!
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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