Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poet Critic English 1772 – 1834

English Romantic poet and author of Kubla Khan.

379 quotes

"Technology is a double-edged sword."
Technology
"History repeats itself to those who don't learn from it."
History
"Philosophy questions everything."
Philosophy
"Literature preserves human experience."
Literature
"Politics shapes our world."
Politics
"War destroys; peace builds."
War
"Motivation is self-generated."
Motivation
"Inspiration ignites the spark within."
Inspiration
"Relationships require effort and care."
Relationships
"Solitude feeds the creative spirit."
Solitude
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."
Wisdom
"Friendship is a sheltering tree."
Friendship
"What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul."
Literature
"He prayeth best, who loveth best all things both great and small."
Faith
"The mind of a man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future."
Imagination
"Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike."
Perseverance
"Summer has set lip to the earth's bosom and found it in flower."
Nature
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
Wisdom
"All knowledge begins with wonder."
Knowledge
"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
Creativity
"Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve and hope without an object cannot live."
Hope
"Language is the armory of the human mind."
Education
"Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink."
Literature
"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
Imagination
"A man of virtue is in season at all times."
"The true miracle is not to walk on water, but to walk on earth."
Philosophy
"Absence from those we love is self from self."
Relationships
"Be what you are and speak the truth boldly."
Truth
"Poetry is the blossom and fragrancy of all human knowledge."
Art
"Dementia praecox or the praecox feeling—a term for the distance we create."