Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.Collection: Architecture
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.Collection: Mothers
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.Collection: Poetry
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.Collection: Poetry
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.Collection: Trust
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.Collection: Strength
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.Collection: Marriage
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.Collection: Dreams
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.Collection: Friendship
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: Truth
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.Collection: Imagination
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.Collection: Humor
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.Collection: Morning
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.Collection: Fear
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.Collection: Humor
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Collection: Imagination
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.Collection: Nature
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.Collection: Men
Friendship is a sheltering tree.Collection: Friendship
Poetry: the best words in the best order.Collection: Poetry
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.Collection: Experience
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.Collection: Hope
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.Collection: Smile
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.Collection: Death
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.Collection: Faith
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.Collection: Sympathy
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.Collection: Friendship
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
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?
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
No one does anything from a single motive.
Good and bad men are less than they seem.
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
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.
The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.