Quotes of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - somelinesforyou

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

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ 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. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Friendship is a sheltering tree. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Poetry: the best words in the best order. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ And in today already walks tomorrow. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Friendship is a sheltering tree. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Silence does not always mark wisdom. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ What if you slept And what if In your sleep You dreamed And what if In your dream You went to heaven And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower And what if When you awoke You had that flower in you hand Ah, what then? ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Poetry: the best words in the best order. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasuredome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ To be loved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Then all the charm Is brokenall that phantomworld so fair Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread, And each misshape the other. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demonlover! ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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