Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Quotes

• “If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light whi...”
• “Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the o...”
• “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...”
• “No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.”
• “No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.”
• “He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.”
• “He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.”
• “People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.”
• “Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”
• “Poetry: the best words in the best order.”
• “Silence does not always mark wisdom.”
• “Friendship is a sheltering tree.”