“Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.”
Truth
“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.”
ArchitectureAll Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.”
Poetry“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.”
Love“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
Friendship“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
Wisdom“Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.”
Imagination“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.”
Imagination“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.”
Architecture“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.”
Knowledge“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.”
Poetry“Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.”
Imagination“How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.”
Morning“Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.”
Nature“Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.”
Strength“To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.”
Experience“He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.”
Hope“Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.”
Future“Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”
Friendship“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.”
Death“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.”
Happiness