Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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 your hand Ah, what then?"
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"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 your hand Ah, what then?"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Complete Poems
"“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"“Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink;Water, water, everywhere,Nor any drop to drink.”"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
"“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 your hand Ah, what then?”"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Complete Poems
"Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"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."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Friendship is a sheltering tree."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree."
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
"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist."
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
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