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01c. 1803 AD

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge / quote

02c. 1803 AD

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge / quote

03c. 1803 AD

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge / quote

04c. 1803 AD

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge / quote

05c. 1803 AD

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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge / quote

06c. 1803 AD

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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge / quote