More from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  1. The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
  2. Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events; just as a palace is more than a house, but it …
  3. The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was …
  4. That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.
  5. I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; poetry …
  6. The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.
  7. Hamlet's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, o…
  8. Shakespeare is the Spinosistic deity - an omnipresent creativeness. Milton is the deity of prescience; he stands ab extra, and drives a fie…

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