Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

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Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

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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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Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed.

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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

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We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next.

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Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

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A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.

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Women have their heads in their hearts. Man seems to have been destined for a superior being; as things are, I think women generally better creatures than men. They have weaker appetites and weaker intellects but much stronger affections. A man with a bad heart has been sometimes saved by a strong head; but a corrupt woman is lost forever.

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Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

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Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance.

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It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

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A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.

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Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

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Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.

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I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.

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All nature seems at work.

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For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten.

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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

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