No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEGuilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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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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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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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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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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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 first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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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.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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