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."

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

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

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"Friendship is a sheltering tree."

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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."

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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."

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

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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."

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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."

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

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

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

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"Poetry: the best words in the best order."

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"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."

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