Author Topic: ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes ~  (Read 1723 times)

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes ~
« Reply #15 on: September 17, 2015, 02:13:56 PM »
Language is the armoury of the human mind; and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes ~
« Reply #16 on: September 17, 2015, 02:14:21 PM »
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.

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Re: ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes ~
« Reply #17 on: September 17, 2015, 02:14:51 PM »
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.

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Re: ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes ~
« Reply #18 on: September 17, 2015, 02:15:16 PM »
He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all.

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Re: ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes ~
« Reply #19 on: September 17, 2015, 02:15:42 PM »
An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music and can detect good from bad.

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Re: ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes ~
« Reply #20 on: September 17, 2015, 02:16:14 PM »
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile a kind look a heartfelt compliment and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.