But I do not doubt that it is...

But I do not doubt that it is beneficial sometimes to contemplate in the mind, as in a picture, the image of a grander and better world; for if the mind grows used to the trivia of daily life, it may dwindle too much and decline altogether into worthless thoughts.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The many men, so beautiful!And they all dead did lie:And a thousand thousand slimy thingsLived on; and so did I.

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What if you slept And what if In your sleep You dreamed And what if In your dream You went to heaven And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower And what if When you awoke You had that flower in you hand Ah, what then?

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Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink;Water, water, everywhere,Nor any drop to drink.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

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Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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