Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge