A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow,...
Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about poetry, recollection, nature, memory, imagination, poets
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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 ColeridgeQuote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about poetry, recollection, nature, memory, imagination, poets.
