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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEOur own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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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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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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