Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Shakespeare is the Spinosistic deity - an omnipresent creativeness. Milton is the deity of prescience; he stands ab extra, and drives a fiery chariot and four, making the horses feel the iron curb which holds them in. Shakspeare's poetry is characterless; that is, it does not reflect the individual Shakspeare; but John Milton himself is in every line of the Paradise Lost. Shakspeare's rhymed verses are excessively condensed, - epigrams with the point every where; but in his blank dramatic verse he is diffused, with a linked sweetness long drawn out.
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Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.
[Marriage]
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So lonely 'twas that God himself scarce seemed there to be.
[Loneliness]
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Stimulate the heart of love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out.
[Love]
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Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.
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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
[Music]
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
[Love]
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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
[Genius]
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Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
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Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.
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That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.
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The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.
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The best sort of music is what it should be - sacred; the next best, the military, has fallen to the lot of the devil.
[Music]
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The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.
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The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests where the love of truth does not urge it further onward and the love of its neighbor bids it stop. - In other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries "Halt."
[Curiosity]
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The devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
[Pride]
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