Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

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Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out.

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No sound is dissonant which tells of life.

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Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.

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Poetry: the best words in the best order.

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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

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To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.

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Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is!

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The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion.

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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .

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Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

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And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

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Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks.

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The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.

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The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.

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Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.

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Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!

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Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.

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Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.

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Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.

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