32 quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“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.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“Friendship is a sheltering tree.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“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.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“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.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“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.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“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.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“Poetry: the best words in the best order.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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