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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Biography

Author Profession: Poet
Nationality: English
Born: October 21, 1772
Died: July 25, 1834

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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Good and bad men are less than they seem.
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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No one does anything from a single motive.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Accurately, Act, Borrow, Borrowing, Examine, Him, Imagination, Memory, More, Nature, Ought, Pick, Pocket, Poet, Recollection, Repay, Than, Trust, Very, Write