Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
What comes from the heart goes to the heart.
There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.
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.
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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.
What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel.
I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration.
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
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.
Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom.
There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul, 2. That old woman, 3. That old witch.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.
Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius-- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
Poetry the best words in the best order.
Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

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