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Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
- That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
- 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.
- The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
- The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
- The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
- The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.
- To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
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