• Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.

    Mary Elizabeth Coleridge: Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.
    Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1954). “Collected Poems”