“Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.”
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as for his major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. He coined many familiar words and phrases, including the celebrated suspension of disbelief. He was a major influence, via Emerson, on American transcendentalism. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge
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“Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.”
“The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.”
“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.”
“To be loved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.”
“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.”
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“Then all the charm Is broken--all that phantom-world so fair Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread, And each mis-shape the other.”
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“A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!”
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“An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not...”
“He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.”
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“For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim, and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe! Shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the...”
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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 th...”
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“All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.”
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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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“I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.”
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“Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.”
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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.”
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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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“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.”
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“Good and bad men are less than they seem.”
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“What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.”
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