Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes - Page 2

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.

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 their best order.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

No man does anything from a single motive.

Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die.