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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes


Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

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

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.

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

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

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

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

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.

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

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

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

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.

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

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

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