That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETo be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
-
-
I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
All powerful souls have kindred with each other
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Summer has set in with its usual severity.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
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 -
An undevout poet is an impossibility.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
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 -
To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
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