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• The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

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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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• 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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• That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

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• Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

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• Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

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• Swans sing before they die – ’twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

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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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• Poetry: the best words in the best order.

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• Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

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• Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

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• Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions form our true honor.

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• Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

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• Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

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• No one does anything from a single motive.

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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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• 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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• Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

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• If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake – Aye, what then?

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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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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (128)

Birth:	21st October, 1772
Death:	25th July, 1834
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Critic, Philosopher, Poet

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