A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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More Quotes By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  1. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

  2. Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

  3. No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

  4. Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

  5. Silence does not always mark wisdom.

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