“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
“What if you slept
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
And what if
In your dream
You went to heaven
And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower
And what if
When you awoke
You had that flower in you hand
Ah, what then?”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
“Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)water board shrink drop drink
“Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
“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.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
“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.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
“No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
“I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance. ”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
"Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole."
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
“No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
“The fair breeze blew,
The white foam flew,
And the forrow followed free.
We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
“Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing
Should certain persons die before they sing.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
"If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?"
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
"Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception."
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
"There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection."
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
"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 (1772-1834)
"Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation."
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
"And in today already walks tomorrow."
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
"No man does anything from a single motive."
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)