Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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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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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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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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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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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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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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