More from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  1. Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.
  2. An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.
  3. Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
  4. Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating truth.
  5. Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
  6. Never pursue literature as a trade.
  7. Not the poem which we have read, but that to which we return, with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name …
  8. Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

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