coleridge Quotes

“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.”

“Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.”

“I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.”

“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.”

“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.”

“How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.”

“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.”

“The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.”

“Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.”

“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.”