Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Consider the following quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

"I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance."

"If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself."

"What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul."

"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain."

"There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to star"

"Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them."

"Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole."

"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,"

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