Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.

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Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

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

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On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.

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Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame; It is the reflex of our earthly frame, That takes its meaning from the nobler part, And but translates the language of the heart.

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Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.

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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.

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Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!

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Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.

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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

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The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems.

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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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A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.

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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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A rogue is a roundabout fool.

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A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.

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

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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

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All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

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