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Quotation from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (spoken by Coleridge)

Biographia Literaria, Chapter XIII (Gutenberg #6081: Biographia Literaria)

His famous definition of the primary imagination.

Citation: "The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM." — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, Chapter XIII (Gutenberg #6081: Biographia Literaria). (id biographia-literaria-q1)

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