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“The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.”

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Book:Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Man Behind The Lyrics (Illustrated Edition): Autobiographical Works (Memoirs, Complete Letters, Literary Introspection, Thoughts and Notes on Poetry); Including Extensive Biographies and Studies on S. T. Coleridge

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Man Behind The Lyrics (Illustrated Edition): Autobiographical Works (Memoirs, Complete Letters, Literary Introspection, Thoughts and Notes on Poetry); Including Extensive Biographies and Studies on S. T. Coleridge

This book is a detailed compilation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's personal writings and scholarly analyses. It includes his memoirs, which offer insights into his life and thoughts, as well as his complete letters, providing a glimpse into his correspondence and social interactions. The literary introspection section delves into his thoughts on poetry and literature, while the notes on poetry offer a deeper understanding of his creative process. Additionally, the book includes extensive biographies and studies that explore Coleridge's life, work, and influence on English literature. more

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, critic, and philosopher, renowned for his works such as 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan'. A leading figure in the Romantic movement, his work has had a significant impact on English literature. more

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“The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise. Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where "I admire" is but a synonyme for "I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ," is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!”

Men Feels Long Two Whole Seems Would Be Age Remember Reading Effort Emotion Too Much Drinking Admire Excess Thorough Bruises Stimulation

Book:Letters, conversations, and recollections [ed. by T.Allsop].

Source: Letters, conversations, and recollections [ed. by T.Allsop].

“The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.”

Men Sometimes Ruined Vocation

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.”

Made Brain Figures Strange Sweet Furniture Carver

Book:The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

“It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals, we may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.”

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.”

Soul Lying Sides Loses Bed Errors Despised Truth And Lies Dormitory

Book:Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections

Source: Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections

“It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet. They become proofs of original genius only as far as they are modified by a predominant passion; or by associated thoughts or images awakened by that passion; or when they have the effect of reducing multitude to unity, or succession to an instant; or lastly, when a human and intellectual life is transferred to them from the poet's spirit.”

Source: Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

“The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface.”

Genius Surface Riches Treasure Ships Lazy

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.”

May Two Character Found Nations Keys Empires Destroying Rome Immense Roman Empire

Book:Specimens of the table talk

Source: Specimens of the table talk

“Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.”

Lasts Dies Standing Jew Gas Chamber Gas Chambers

Author:Golda Meir

“It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for a way to leave. I entered the houses, there were houses where the coffee and pita bread were left on the table, and I could not avoid [thinking] that this, indeed, had been the picture in many Jewish towns [i.e., in Europe, during World War II].”

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Author:Golda Meir