Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

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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. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.

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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals, 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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My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

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The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the love of its neighbor bids it stop; in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt!

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It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.

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But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.

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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

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No sound is dissonant which tells of life.

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Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!

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Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.

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The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.

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As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

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Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.

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O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?

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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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