Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
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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.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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?
What comes from the heart goes to the heart.
Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.
There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul, 2. That old woman, 3. That old witch.
The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

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