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Quotes from Biographia Literaria — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1772–1834 England

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Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating truth.

Biographia Literaria (1817)

The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.

Biographia Literaria (1817)

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language

Biographia Literaria (1817)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.