Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom.
I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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?
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.
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.
There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order-poetry the best words in the best order.
The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.
I like to use 'I Can't Believe it's Not Butter' on my toast in the morning, because sometimes when I eat breakfast, I like to be incredulous. How was breakfast? Unbelievable.
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
Pay attention to your inner voice. For it needs you to analyse what you are thinking about.
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
You cannot mix sports with politics.
Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
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