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Quotation from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (spoken by Coleridge)

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

His account of the reader's response to the supernatural in poetry.

Citation: "that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith." — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, Chapter XIV (Gutenberg #6081: Biographia Literaria). (id biographia-literaria-q2)

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