Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“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 a poet.””

“Readers may be divided into four classes: I. Sponges, who absorb all they read, and return it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtied. II. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing, and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. III. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. IV. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also.””

“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.””

“Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.””

“He prayeth best, who loveth bestAll things both great and small;For the dear God who loveth us,He made and loveth all.””

“Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor.””

“Like one, that on a lonesome roadDoth walk in fear and dread,And having once turned round walks on,And turns no more his head;Because he knows, a frightful fiendDoth close behind him tread.””

“Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold:Her skin was white as leprosy,The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.””

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

“Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.””

“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.””

“A great mind must be androgynous.””

“In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree:Where Alph, the sacred river, ranThrough caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.””