People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAll sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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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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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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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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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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