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The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Age: 61 †
Born: 1772
Born: October 21
Died: 1834
Died: July 25
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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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To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!
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In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.
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And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain.
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The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
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All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.
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The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be!
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