Quotes By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

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.

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

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

No one does anything from a single motive.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

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.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

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.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.

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.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

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.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.