Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding. Samuel Taylor Coleridge More Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge More Quotes From Samuel Taylor Coleridge I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. Samuel Taylor Coleridge passionwinningmay An undevout poet is an impossibility. Samuel Taylor Coleridge impossibilitypoetpoetry I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. Samuel Taylor Coleridge would-bechildrenworld He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all. Samuel Taylor Coleridge prayerlovelife Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God. Samuel Taylor Coleridge voiceearthgod Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist. Samuel Taylor Coleridge strengthatheistheart Within today, tomorrow is already walking. Samuel Taylor Coleridge tomorrowwalkingtoday Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. Samuel Taylor Coleridge greatnessgoodnessmean All nature seems at work. Samuel Taylor Coleridge gardenseems He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. Samuel Taylor Coleridge physiciansmedicinehope The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am. Samuel Taylor Coleridge perceptionimaginationmind The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault. Samuel Taylor Coleridge definitionspoetryattention Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself. Samuel Taylor Coleridge supportdemocracyblood To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth. Samuel Taylor Coleridge growthdifferentbelieve Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood. Samuel Taylor Coleridge childhoodfeelingsmen The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity. Samuel Taylor Coleridge definition-of-beautyunitydefinitions Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks. Samuel Taylor Coleridge stalkingsolemnlong Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Samuel Taylor Coleridge flowerlove-islife Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from. Samuel Taylor Coleridge plagiarismstolenwriting The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge toolsknowingmen
