Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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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The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.

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I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.

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The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.

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The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

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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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Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.

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You talk about making this article cheaper by reducing its price in the market from 8 d. to 6 d. But suppose, in so doing, you have rendered your country weaker against a foreign foe; suppose you have demoralized thousands of your fellow-countrymen, and have sown discontent between one class of society and another, your article is tolerably dear, I take it, after all.

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The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

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When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

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I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and all the countless Believers-even (strange to say) among Xtians-of Man's having progressed from an Ouran Outang state-so contrary to all History, to all Religion, nay, to all Possibility-to have affirmed a Fall in some sense.

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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

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Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn.

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There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.

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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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God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, you piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!

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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

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I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity.

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