Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

English poet and critic

Lived from: 1772 - 1834

Category: Media | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 21 october 1772 Died: 25 july 1834

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  • Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
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  • Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.
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  • 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.
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  • Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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  • Swans sing before they die - t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
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  • 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.
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  • That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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  • The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimal of pleasurable and genial feeling.
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  • The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
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  • The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are - 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.
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  • The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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  • There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.
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  • To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
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  • What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.
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  • What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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  • What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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  • Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.
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  • Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live.
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  • Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
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  • The study of the Bible will keep anyone from being vulgar in style.
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