Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

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.

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.

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.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Swans sing before they die - `twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged

Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I`ve wept and the maid I woo

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear

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.

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.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.