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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Giving, Pleasure, Not Perfect
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria”, p.1606, e-artnow

O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Giving, Doe, Our Lives
'Dejection: an Ode' (1802) st. 4

The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the senses by the permanence and self-circling energies of the reason, gives birth to a system of symbols, harmonious in themselves, and consubstantial with the truths of which they are the conductors.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Self, Imagination, Giving
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Engell, Walter Jackson Bate (1984). “Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.156, Princeton University Press

Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Skills, Giving, Instinct
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1957). “Notebooks”

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