Samuel Taylor Coleridge
poet, philosopher, theologian, literary critic, critic, writer
Read on Wikipedia1772 – 1834
All Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Since then, at an uncertain hour,”
“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.”
“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.”
“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.”
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
“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.”
“that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith”
“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.”
“Water, water, everywhere,”
“Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.”
“Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.”
“All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair—”
“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.”
“Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”
“Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.”
“How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.”
“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.”
“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.”
“To be loved is all I need,”
“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.”
“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.”
“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”
“People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.”
“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”
“What if you slept”
“Sir, I admit your general rule,”
“An orphan's curse would drag to hell”
“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”
“No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.”
“Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.”
“Then all the charm”
“Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down,”
“To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.”
“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan”
“Day after day, day after day,”
“The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.”
“That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.”