English - Poet | October 21, 1772 - July 25, 1834
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
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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.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
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The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
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