"That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith."
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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More From Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- "A poet ought not to pick nature’s pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory."
- "Poetry: the best words in the best order."
- "In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure."
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- "The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination."― Alan Watts
- "As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field."― Billy Corgan
- "Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure."― Napoleon Hill