Poetry Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”

“To be loved is all I need,”

“Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.”

“Then all the charm”

“Sir, I admit your general rule,”

“Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.”

“My brother once showed me a piece of quartz that contained, he said, some trapped water older than all the seas in our world. He held it up to my ear. ‘Listen,’ he said, ‘life and no escape.”

“Now is History as fast as the mind remembers.”

“You see how I try”

“I drink from a small spring,”

“Aristocracy naturally leads the human mind to the contemplation of the past, and fixes it there. Democracy, on the contrary, gives men a sort of instinctive distaste for what is ancient. In this respect aristocracy is far more favorable to poetry; for things commonly grow larger and more obscure as they are more remote; and, for this two-fold reason, they are better suited to the delineation of the ideal.”

“she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks.”