Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
So for the mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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.
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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?
Good and bad men are less than they seem.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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.
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.
