Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

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.

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

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.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.