Friendship is a sheltering tree. Samuel Taylor Coleridge friendshipsheltertree Change image and share on social
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. Samuel Taylor Coleridge degreegeniushumor Change image and share on social
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge dreamlifelive Change image and share on social
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 airburndim Change image and share on social
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. Samuel Taylor Coleridge agechildinhuman Change image and share on social
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. Samuel Taylor Coleridge antipathyconstitutefriendship Change image and share on social
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. Samuel Taylor Coleridge accuratelyactborrow share on social
If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then? Samuel Taylor Coleridge awakeayedream share on social
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature. Samuel Taylor Coleridge acuteexquisitelygenius Change image and share on social
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. Samuel Taylor Coleridge acknowledgeconsistentdisguise Change image and share on social