coleridge Quotes

“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.”

“That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.”

“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.”

“People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.”

“To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.”

“Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”

“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.”

“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”

“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.”

“Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.”