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