The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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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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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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