The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. Samuel Taylor Coleridge on architecture
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge on death
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge on dreams
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. Samuel Taylor Coleridge on experience
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure. Samuel Taylor Coleridge on failure
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. Samuel Taylor Coleridge on faith
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. Samuel Taylor Coleridge on friendship
Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree. Samuel Taylor Coleridge on friendship
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. Samuel Taylor Coleridge on future
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all. Samuel Taylor Coleridge on government
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance. Samuel Taylor Coleridge on great
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 on happiness
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. Samuel Taylor Coleridge on hope
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all. Samuel Taylor Coleridge on hope
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. Samuel Taylor Coleridge on humor
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. Samuel Taylor Coleridge on humor
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 on imagination
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 on imagination