English - Poet | October 21, 1772 - July 25, 1834
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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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.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
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Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
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The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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