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 Marriage
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Imagination
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Truth
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poetry
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Architecture
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Morning
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 Happiness
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 Imagination
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Nature