Samuel Taylor Coleridge quote: “A poet ought not to pick nature’s…”

A quotation from the English poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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 Coleridge –

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This quote is by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), English Poet

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