No man does anything from a single motive. ✨ Biographia Literaria: Or,…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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No man does anything from a single motive. ✨ Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions; and Two Lay Sermons.
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How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day! ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Wit … ▶
Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent … ▶
Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). The Literary Remains, p.316
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul. ✨ 'Epigram' (1802)
He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn. ✨ 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 7

No man does anything from a single motive. ✨ Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions; and Two Lay Sermons.

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