Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.

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Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best-balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation.

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Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a Turtle and divisible as the Polyp, repullulative in a thousand Snips and Cuttings, integra et in toto! She is sure to get the better of Lady MIND in the long run, and to take her revenge too transforms our To Day into a Canvass dead-colored to receive the dull featureless Portait of Yesterday.

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O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be!

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To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.

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Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.

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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

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Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)

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A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.

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Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

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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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Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

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The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.

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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.

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If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

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Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.

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The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.

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Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.

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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?

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