An undevout poet is an impossibility. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1908)…

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An undevout poet is an impossibility. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1908). Lectures and Notes on Shakespeare and Other English Poets
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, John McVickar (1854). Coleridge's Aids to r … ▶
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1908). Lectures and Notes on Shakespeare and Other English Poets

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