The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEClergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within 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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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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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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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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