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.

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.

-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge


		Name: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Type: Poet Nationality: English Birth: October 21, 1772 Death: July 25, 1834

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