“That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.”
Faith
“All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.”
SympathyAll Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.”
Architecture“He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.”
Truth“Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.”
Truth“All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.”
Sympathy“No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.”
Humor“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”
Poetry“As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.”
Dreams“He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.”
Hope“People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.”
Humor“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“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“Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.”
Strength“How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.”
Morning“The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.”
Marriage“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
Wisdom“Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.”
Nature“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“Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”
Friendship“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
Friendship