Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes, Thoughts and images

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

What comes from the heart goes to the heart

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

A great mind must be androgynous.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

He prayeth best who loveth best.

And in today already walks tomorrow.

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

Doing evil to avoid evil cannot be good.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.

No man does anything from a single motive.

This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.

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.

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.