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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English Poet
Born: Oct 21, 1772
Died: Jul 25, 1834
Being Best Genius Love Man Mind
Related authors: Alexander Pope Alfred Lord Tennyson John Keats John Milton Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert Browning William Blake William Wordsworth
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mind Advice Softer Longer Like Falls Snow Dwells Deeper
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love Heart Light Mother Father Softer Veil Between Mother's Day Heavenly Heavenly Father
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love Friendship Love Is Flower Tree Like Sheltering
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
Myself Man Woman Happy Marriage Picture Would Would-Be Most Blind Deaf Happy Marriage Union Imagine
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
Happiness Life Smile Made Kiss Kind Compliment Charities Minute Soon Look Up Heartfelt Forgotten Little Fraction
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Great Seen Tolerance Intolerance Support Shown
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wisdom World Degree Sense Uncommon Calls Common Common Sense
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Time Great Man Poet Philosopher Without Same Same Time Being Ever Profound
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Life Living Christianity Philosophy Process Theory Speculation
And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love Old Old Friends Air Dim Thou Though Thy Like Safe Because Were Nor Friends Burn Thee Lamps Them Less Recess
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nature Before Bad Bad Thing Sing Die Swans Persons Certain Should Thing
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Experience Men Only Lights Like Stern Most Track Passed Ship Which Illuminate
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Will Every Minds Weak Weak Minds Carried Excess However Itself Reform Reforming Necessary Need
Poetry: the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Best Words Poetry Order
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Truth Better Church Will Christianity More He Himself His End Than Begins Proceed Loving Who
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Life Dreams Man My Life Become Live Tale Am Substances
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hope Best Physician He Most Ingenious Who
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sense Of Humor Mind Humor Sense Deficient Thoroughly Well Organized
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Goodness Greatness Ends Means
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Man Genius School Put True Drudgery True Genius Sentence Treadmill
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Heart Honor Men Own Other Our True Opinions Form
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sympathy Virtue Consistent Selfishness Disguised Acknowledged
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Truth Youth Poison Had Been Friends Whispering Alas Tongues
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
Best Words Remember Wish Clever Young Our Definitions Would Poetry Poets Prose Order Homely
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
Language Imagination Purely More Written Very Plain Should Works Necessary Imaginative
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Architecture Made Principle Gothic Infinity Imaginable
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