Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote

It is the prime merit of genius, and its most unequivocal mode of manifestation, so to represent familiar objects, as to awaken in the minds of others a kindred feeling concerning them, and that freshness of sensation which is the constant accompaniment of mental, no less than of bodily, convalescence.

Biographia literaria, Chapter IV (p. 41), George Bell & Sons. 1905