The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge Mothersday
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sympathy
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. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge Smile
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 Friendship
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge Humor
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. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge Knowledge
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poetry
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge Imagination
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 Sympathy
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge Strength
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 Nature
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 Trust
