"Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose,……" — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure."
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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325 Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.
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The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the…
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The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light,…
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Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely…
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Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.
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And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.
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Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge...
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All nature seems at work.
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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
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The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and…
— Thomas Carlyle
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In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new…
— Charles Darwin
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Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is…
— Willis R. Whitney
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Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in…
— William Stanley Jevons
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
— Anthony Trollope
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Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being,…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass…
— John Dewey
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The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors if there be…
— Joseph Pilates
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The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable…
— Edmund Burke
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The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors...
— Joseph Pilates
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No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of…
— H. L. Mencken
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