“No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.”
Humor
“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.”
PoetryAll Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.”
Hope“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“I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.”
Great“How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.”
Morning“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“Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.”
Truth“As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.”
Dreams“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“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“Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.”
Imagination“Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”
Friendship“That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.”
Faith“To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.”
Experience“The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.”
Marriage“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.”
Architecture“Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.”
Strength“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”
Poetry“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
Wisdom“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