Authors — Quotes

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes: 19

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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.
Literary Remains, Vol. 1
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
What if you slept?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?
The Complete Poems
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink;Water, water, everywhere,Nor any drop to drink.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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.
Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree:Where Alph, the sacred river, ranThrough caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
The Complete Poems
He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.
Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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.