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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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.
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink.Water, water everywhere,Nor any drop to drink.
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1.That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch.
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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.
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge