Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

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

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

Love is flower like Friendship is like 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.

A poet ought not to pick natures 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.

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

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.

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

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

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

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