"Works of imagination should be written in very……" — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"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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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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High thoughts must have high language.
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are…
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
— Walter Bagehot
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