Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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• Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

  “Hacket’s Life of Lord Keeper Williams”, notes published in The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 3 (1838), ed. Henry Nelson Coleridge, p. 186

  • Wisdom

• To know, to esteem, to love⁠—and then to part,
  Makes up life’s tale to many a feeling heart!

  “On taking Leave of ————“, l. 1 (1817)

  • Love

• My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.

  “A Day-Dream”, l. 1 (1828)

  • Inspiration
  • Sleep

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