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"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never."
7+ Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A curated collection of 7 inspirational quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge on life, wisdom, and the human experience.
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"Friendship is a sheltering tree."
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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."