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.Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about poetry, recollection, nature, memory, imagination, poets
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.Quote by Blaise Pascal about justice, tools, truth