Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word.

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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

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Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.

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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.

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For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

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Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

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Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.

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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

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An undevout poet is an impossibility.

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All powerful souls have kindred with each other

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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?

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

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Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

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The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.

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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

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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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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

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Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

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