Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events; just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least."

"The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself."

"The anxiety to be admired is a loveless passion ... , loud on the hustings, gay in the ball-room, mute and sullen at the family fireside."

"Blest hour! it was a luxury — to be!"

"As in respect of the first wonder we are all on the same level, how comes it that the philosophic mind should, in all ages, be the privilege of a few? The most obvious reason is this: The wonder takes…"

"Ye living flowers that skirt the eternal frost."

"The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols."

"The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man."